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  • adjective With a quality unlike those normal to everyday life, or outside typical human experience.

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Examples

  • Even the black-and-white archival photo on the cover (featuring an eerie/beautiful photo of a young girl who looks like she could be Millan 100 years ago) conjures an otherworldy presence.

    Kristi York Wooten: Fixed on Stars' Paradoxical Pop Kristi York Wooten 2010

  • Even the black-and-white archival photo on the cover (featuring an eerie/beautiful photo of a young girl who looks like she could be Millan 100 years ago) conjures an otherworldy presence.

    Kristi York Wooten: Fixed on Stars' Paradoxical Pop Kristi York Wooten 2010

  • Even the black-and-white archival photo on the cover (featuring an eerie/beautiful photo of a young girl who looks like she could be Millan 100 years ago) conjures an otherworldy presence.

    Kristi York Wooten: Fixed on Stars' Paradoxical Pop Kristi York Wooten 2010

  • When the paranormal raises its otherworldy head in New York City, the Department of Extraordinary Affairs executes a flawless, stick-the-landing smackdown.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Donna 2010

  • When the paranormal raises its otherworldy head in New York City, the Department of Extraordinary Affairs executes a flawless, stick-the-landing smackdown.

    Guest Review: Dead Matter by Anton Strout Donna 2010

  • The lack of any scoring created an almost otherworldy tension.

    The Americans Have Landed 2010

  • And they often remember that and so retain a connection to us otherworldy types.

    The Nervous Breakdown 2010

  • I love, love, love that Edgeworthia bud and, yes, worthy of otherworldy pursuits.

    Blooms? In January? « Fairegarden 2010

  • A spellbinding tale filled with worldly and otherworldy desires that, quite simply, mesmerizes.

    The Devil Wears Plaid Teresa Medeiros 2010

  • Meanwhile, The New York Times will have to rewrite their recent Namibian travelogue to include this “dazzling geological display” and “otherworldy landscape.”

    Solar Towers 2008

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