Usage examples (39)

• It was uncanny how it rained when we were the least prepared for it.
• And Roboticist Masahiro Mori used the term uncanny valley to describe the disconcerting reaction people had to robots as they became more human-like in their appearance.
• In fact, in so far as the uncanny is also a signifier to which a real world referent can be attached we might be even more dubious.
• In our lit-crit terminology, this unsettling aspect of the "uncanny" is the implicity of a boulomaic modality of "should not have happened".