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uncanny
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    "So, young Harry," said Fred, in an uncanny impersonation of Percy, "mind you behave yourself."†  (source)
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    He bore such an uncanny resemblance to Norm from the TV show I wondered if he got paid residuals.†  (source)
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    Once again Lilian was struck by the uncanny way her best friend seemed to read her thoughts.†  (source)
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    The multiple ironies of this were so layered and uncanny that I gaped in horror.†  (source)
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    "What you want me to eat this for so bad?" he asked her uncannily.†  (source)
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    "Ah, now I see how it is you know Shakespeare and everything, and have learned so much since you left school; which always seemed to me witchcraft before,—part of your general uncanniness," said Lucy.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    He had an uncanny ability to remember names.†  (source)
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    It sounded uncannily like Wesley Rush's unnerving whisper.†  (source)
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    In the pause one became aware of the uncanniness of the silence all about us.†  (source)
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    Something about the combination of her loyalty and patience creates an uncanny urge to confide.†  (source)
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    He was the size of a small child, but his movements were uncannily adult; and his authority onstage was beyond "adult"—it was supernatural.†  (source)
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    And if there was something uncanny about the enormity of the snowing, deadly silence— and as a child of civilization he most certainly felt there was—both his intellect and senses had long ago tasted of the uncanniness up here.†  (source)
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    But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.†  (source)
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