uncanny
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Kaeppel has done the research and found that over the past 106 years, the U.S. equity market has followed a seven-year cycle with uncanny regularity.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
“A lot of this content ends up in the uncanny valley of ‘Sounds like humans, but isn’t quite human, and this is giving me a bad feeling,’” Roth says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Dark tourism research reveals that people are drawn to places associated with death, disaster, tragedy and the uncanny, whether former prisons, abandoned sites, or locations connected to unsettling historical events.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
During the album’s rollout, the pop star’s visage was perfected with the help of some uncanny AI smoothing, while her accompanying “Confessions II” short film featured a team of AI artists in the credits.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
I was so absorbed in the movie that real life feels slightly unreal; I have the uncanny sense of having stepped out of the screen and onto the street.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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