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spooky

[spoo-kee] / ˈspu ki /


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Another fan, a nail artist, crafted spooky bespoke black and purple press-ons decorated with intricate white hares.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

What’s a nine-letter “cutesy term for spooky snakes”? Sharpen your wordplay skills with today’s crossword.

From Slate Sep. 15, 2026

With the spooky genre dominating theaters, it was only a matter of time before the studios reopened their vaults to reboot classics as TV series.

From Salon Sep. 4, 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

It was spooky but Brian began again, pronouncing the names more exactly, pausing between names and figures.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

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

Streetlamps glowed around the shore of the lake, making the water and trees look even spookier.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

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

"Mother said this was the spookiest place in the whole house—except the cellar."

From Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners by Janet D. Wheeler




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