mysterious
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"Valor Mortis" by the Polish studio One More Level shows Napoleon's 19th century army fuelled by a mysterious substance that makes them stronger before turning them into zombies and half-animal creatures.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Astronomers detect mysterious burst of energy from a galaxy far, far away.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Lacking the necessary technology and expertise to answer that question, museum curators stored the mysterious fragments while competing explanations remained unresolved.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
In John de los Santos’s jam-packed libretto, Macaria, who works as a hospital custodian, meets the mysterious Señora, who is actually Death, on a bus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
So Josie wrote down the phone number of the mysterious kind lady and slid it across the table and said, “This is who your mom should call.”
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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