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as in excitable
easily excited by nature
a spooky horse shying at shadows
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as in eerie
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic
a spooky tale of strange hauntings and mysterious reincarnations
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Photograph: Simon Hill Happy & Polly offers some other spooky cat gear.
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Simon Hill, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
Loading your audio article Although spooky season is over, the scares don’t have to stop.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
With a birthday so close to Halloween, Kendall has celebrated her birthday and spooky season at the same time in the past.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 3 Nov. 2024
In what has become an annual tradition, Mariah Carey has marked the end of the spooky season and the start of her reign as the Queen of Christmas with a viral video.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Simon Hill, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
Loading your audio article Although spooky season is over, the scares don’t have to stop.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
With a birthday so close to Halloween, Kendall has celebrated her birthday and spooky season at the same time in the past.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 3 Nov. 2024
In what has become an annual tradition, Mariah Carey has marked the end of the spooky season and the start of her reign as the Queen of Christmas with a viral video.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Lucy, over-the-top housewife Lucy and Ricky, her excitable husband, were always getting into some sort of entertaining hijinks.Michael Gioia, Architectural Digest, 26 Sep. 2024
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In the first verse, the drums march stiffly, while the bass is excitable like the cad Khan targets, popping rudely and bounding showily into the chorus.Elias Leight, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2024
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The body horror lingering at the fringes of this is very eerie.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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In my inbox sit three eerie, unsolicited photographs of a crime scene.Aja Romano, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
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There’s really nothing to be nervous about, just the optics of everything.Peter A. Berry, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2024
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The tech industry has been nervous about what Trump, who now has his own social network in the form of Truth Social, might do about Section 230 the second time around.David Meyer, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2024
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Grunewald takes what could have been a forgettable crossover ‘evil team-up’ issue and crafts one of the most haunting mediations on extremism and vengeance.Josh Weiss, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Zito's modus operandi is scalping women and attaching their hair to mannequins, which probably has nothing to do with his mommy issues... Tom Savini truly works his magic in Maniac, and the special makeup effects are haunting, but the film also gets a boost from a pair of genre heavy-hitters.Steven Thrash, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2024
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Luna rocked a black and red creepy clown look, while Miles dressed up and dabbed as DJ Marshmello.Colson Thayer, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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Instead, the final episodes are a disappointing, sloppy denouement that replaces the show’s initial creepy confusion for bored exhaustion.James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Spooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spooky. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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