adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an uncanny knack (= an ability that seems surprising or strange )
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She has an uncanny knack for knowing what you're really thinking.
an uncanny resemblance (= noticeable and difficult to explain )
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I'd always thought that Jo and Freddie had an uncanny resemblance.
uncanny ability (= an unusual ability that is difficult to explain )
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He has an uncanny ability for spotting investment opportunities.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ability
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Bonefish's real name was Hector, but he had earned his nickname because of his uncanny ability to find the elusive fish.
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And he has this uncanny ability to synthesize concepts from a few isolated observations.
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Anyone who worked with him recognised his uncanny ability to find something oddly heroic in all the manifestations of human weakness.
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Boilly had the uncanny ability to record the individual and the crowd simultaneously.
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Jack knew quite enough about her uncanny ability to choose the wrong men.
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A number of athletes have gained reputations for this uncanny ability .
accuracy
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It was starting to be unnerving, this ability of his to judge her with such uncanny accuracy !
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Again and again he was saved only by the uncanny accuracy of his shooting.
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He had predicted with uncanny accuracy the result of a snooker championship.
knack
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But like most of his colleagues in Hampden Babylon he had an uncanny knack of pushing the self-destruct button.
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He had a deep knowledge of the habits of all the local wildlife and an uncanny knack of befriending them.
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Keanu Reeves plays a criminal defense attorney who has an uncanny knack for picking sympathetic jurors.
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As some one said ... him and Strach had an uncanny knack of supporting each other when needed.
resemblance
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He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy.
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The rumors bore an uncanny resemblance to whatever people feared most.
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One of the inn's habitués, a commercial traveller named Thomas Paufer, bore an uncanny resemblance to Johnson.
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Stack saw an uncanny resemblance to his fictional Josh.
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In the multi-tracked recording Mr Jarvis plays 99 roles, many of which bear an uncanny resemblance to well-known actors.
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The policies of central banks in the post-cold war years bear an uncanny resemblance to those of the 1920s.
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It was a face in fact which bore an uncanny resemblance to a young Jack Palance.
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There is an uncanny resemblance between this reasoning and that which had earlier led John Dalton to an atomic theory of chemistry.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He has an uncanny ability to guess what you're thinking.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And he has this uncanny ability to synthesize concepts from a few isolated observations.
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He had an uncanny way of making me feel simple.
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He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy.
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In one of the tales of the Arabian Nights the sovereign has the uncanny experience of meeting himself.
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It was the quietness that was so uncanny .
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Recovering his balance with uncanny speed, he snarled and launched himself after the still tumbling figure of his intended victim.
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Republicans concede that the president has an uncanny rhetorical talent that he has used effectively to put congressional leaders on the defensive.
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The rumors bore an uncanny resemblance to whatever people feared most.