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spooky

[spoo-kee] / ˈspu ki /


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Sheen has previously spoken about a series of spooky experiences in Port Talbot, south Wales, which convinced him the town was "very UFO-y".

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

Coherence is also closely tied to quantum entanglement, the phenomenon that prompted Albert Einstein to describe it as "spooky action at a distance."

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

The question of whether Summerween makes Halloween less special, and whether the calendar year is big enough for two spooky seasons, is personal — but it also speaks to a cultural obsession with consumption.

From Salon Jun. 30, 2026

Fittingly, Rhys is currently portraying the mayor of a small island town where spooky, supernatural things keep happening on Apple TV’s comedy-horror series “Widow’s Bay.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

Then came the voice once again, soft and spooky this time, "Rattle my bones," it said.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

There’s no sense that things are going to get spooky, because they’re pretty spooky from the beginning, and though they become spookier as the series goes along, they are almost never not spooky.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 24, 2024

But something makes the newly discovered species even spookier.

From New York Times May 12, 2023

While Ortega wore a bright pink Valentino dress to last year's Met Gala, this year she went with a distinctly spookier and more gothic vibe.

From BBC May 2, 2023

A more apt slogan for these games might be lonelier, quieter, spookier.

From Washington Post Jan. 19, 2022

I kept walking and walking, and it kept getting darker and darker and spookier and spookier.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

Rather, they are merely Halloween-inspired, containing candies that are shaped like bats and cats — undeniably two of the spookiest creatures.

From Salon Sep. 29, 2025

From ‘American Horror Story’s’ Murder House and ‘Poltergeist’s’ suburban spooker to a handful of ‘Halloween’ homes, here’s a quick guide to a dozen of the Southland’s spookiest homes.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 7, 2023

Not any more, now that I put together this guide to what to do in and around New York City during the year’s spookiest month.

From New York Times Sep. 30, 2023

Consolidation has long been the publishing industry’s buzziest, and probably spookiest, existential threat.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2023

It gits almighty cold there in September, an' it was sure the spookiest show I ever seen.

From Humorous Ghost Stories by Scarborough, Dorothy




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