uncanny

Ghosting is uncanny not only because it deprives us of certain codified social rituals for disentangling our relationships.

"Familiar places can be turned into something uncanny, unsettling," says listing and architectural research director Charles O'Brien.

Uzbekistan’s medieval astronomer Ulugh Beg built the most advanced observatory of his time, charting the stars with uncanny precision long before Galileo.

“You have to give it a physicality that is heartbreakingly uncanny but also hypnotically human.”

That discomfort invariably produces mistakes—and the Brewers have an uncanny knack for taking advantage of the tiniest possible opening.