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How to pronounce “uncanny”
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Pronunciation guide for uncanny
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of uncanny with real speech in context.
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- Ex Machina
ALEX GARLAND: Uncanny valley.
- Definition summary
- Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.
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How to pronounce uncanny
Ex Machina

ALEX GARLAND: Uncanny valley.
Example Sentences
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Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.
- (UK dialectal) Careless.
- [Noun]
- (psychology, psychoanalysis, Freud) Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort.
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