adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mysterious stranger
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She never knew who the mysterious stranger was who had helped her that night.
die in suspicious/mysterious circumstances (= used to say that someone may have been killed )
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He got involved with drug dealers and died in mysterious circumstances.
mysterious circumstances (= strange or suspicious )
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One of their colleagues had vanished in mysterious circumstances.
strange/unusual/mysterious etc happenings
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There have been reports of strange happenings in the town.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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They would prefer to keep the mysteries of nature as mysterious as possible.
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The significance of this link is as mysterious as everything else to do with the Prieure.
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The rooms were just as mysterious .
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His death was as mysterious as his life.
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Washed in shadow he looked as mysterious as when she first met him.
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It was a gift. As mysterious and as simple as that.
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The purpose of the vast megalithic constructions, for example, remains almost as mysterious now as it did in the nineteenth century.
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Its mystery somehow diminished life, or did it enlarge it by making life and its purpose more mysterious still.
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In fact, according to the rules of quantum mechanics, what is happening is even more mysterious than that!
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These days it seems something more mysterious , but also somehow more real.
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The pines are darker and more mysterious than ever.
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Even more mysterious were the tins of pre-mixed tea, milk and sugar, to which people tried to add water.
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However, after that first burst of idea and feeling, it presents a deeper, more mysterious sadness.
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Indeed, now that I know about the Marmite and the teenage sons it seems more mysterious than ever.
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A missing princess is more mysterious than a found one.
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Nowadays, of course, we understand that it was this way of talking about ethical abstractions that made them seem so mysterious .
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Now their job is easier-the links are no longer so mysterious .
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It's not half so mysterious when you've got a horde of parents dragging screaming kids around it.
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She didn't need to pretend it was all so mysterious .
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And perhaps the reasons for his quasi-retirement are not so mysterious after all.
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The second feature, the power system, is not so mysterious .
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It's all very mysterious - why, for instance, does Cape still need a managing director but not Chatto?
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Television: Your little Hubble-vision into a very mysterious world.
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She was tall and dark and pale, and looked very mysterious and romantic.
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The wheeling and dealing of regimes is presumably not very mysterious .
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Blanche DuBois arrives at Stella's and Stanley's house under very mysterious circumstances.
■ NOUN
circumstances
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The defendants stored on their land large quantities of combustible materials which ignited in mysterious circumstances .
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The latest wave of repression began after Ali Akbar SaidiSirjani died in detention under mysterious circumstances in the end of 1994.
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That Pheidias died in prison under mysterious circumstances , as Plutarch says, is a later and unfounded tradition.
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Tethlis dies afterwards under mysterious circumstances .
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Some had died in rather mysterious circumstances , others been sent abroad on this task or the other.
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Eight others connected directly or indirectly with the dig later died in mysterious circumstances .
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Blanche DuBois arrives at Stella's and Stanley's house under very mysterious circumstances .
death
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Of course, you will have to have what P. D. James called the mysterious death at the heart of your story.
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But it will have to be more than the mysterious death used in the old, simple detective story.
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There is, she says, always a mysterious death at its heart.
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The two-hour film is due to be screened on November 5, the second anniversary of the publisher's mysterious death .
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Most of the £406 million cash he owes was swindled from pension funds by his father before his mysterious death last year.
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Whilst she was employed as a maid in various establishments, other staff members met mysterious deaths , usually from poison.
disappearance
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Her heart quickened - perhaps they were discussing Puddephat's mysterious disappearance ?
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The mysterious disappearance of Mr. Stavanger alone is something that needs to be cleared up.
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Read in studio A search has been launched after a couples mysterious disappearance .
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Read in studio Police say they're baffled by the mysterious disappearance of a twenty nine year old farmer.
man
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As the mysterious man following Blackeyes, Nigel Planer speaks at last, though he has damn all to say.
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And some mysterious man in the gym.
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Could she have triggered some unwanted response in this mysterious man , entirely by accident?
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This must be the place where the mysterious man was hiding!
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As I looked round the hut, I knew that the mysterious man must have a very strong character.
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This mysterious man had penetrated Jaq's Tarot.
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I felt frightened as I waited for the mysterious man .
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Barrymore did not know in which of them the mysterious man was living.
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Theories, however, operate in mysterious ways .
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But events have moved in mysterious ways .
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History repeats itself in some less than mysterious ways .
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In some mysterious way , from this horror of blank boundless vacancy the best of all things came into being.
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But love and scandal move in mysterious ways .
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He was smiling, frustrating Jerome in some mysterious way .
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Yet she knew the dead touched the living in unexpected and mysterious ways .
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Theories, however, operate in mysterious ways .
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But events have moved in mysterious ways .
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History repeats itself in some less than mysterious ways .
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But love and scandal move in mysterious ways .
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Yet she knew the dead touched the living in unexpected and mysterious ways .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
God moves in a mysterious way/mysterious ways
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a woman with a mysterious past
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He was an impostor -- dark, frightening and mysterious .
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He was seen leaving the building at midnight with two men -- it was all very mysterious .
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I kept getting mysterious phone calls where the caller would hang up as soon as I answered.
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No one could offer an explanation for his mysterious disappearance.
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Police are investigating the mysterious disappearance of a young schoolteacher.
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She had been suffering from mysterious fits for five years before the doctors diagnosed epilepsy.
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The General was killed in a mysterious plane crash.
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The ship vanished in mysterious circumstances, never to be seen again.
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There was something mysterious about him, and she wanted to ask him a lot of questions.
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Two weeks later, the shop burned to the ground under mysterious circumstances.
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Who killed the mysterious visitor to Pine Valley?
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You are a mysterious girl -- why won't you tell me your name?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All of them with a tap root deep in history and branches lost in mysterious mist.
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At all times all wise men had revered the mysterious organ of generation through which alone might life be entered.
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He will bear a parcel from the mysterious , lovely, no-place-jacketed Carolina.
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Hidden along each Trail are nine mysterious clues.
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Ishmael suggests that various primitive tribes and various religions have always looked upon the sea as something mysterious and deep.
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Now he concentrated on the mysterious murders in the forest.
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The witch: An evil, mysterious character, with the classic, repulsive look of a witch.
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When the whale is cut up, the head resembles that of the mysterious Sphynx.