After all, as Joseph Schumpeter famously observed, market based systems have long had an uncanny knack for self healing. But this was all but disallowed in the post crisis era by US government bailouts and the Fed s manipulation of asset prices.

This robot can't be creepy or uncanny.

Different parts of the world have a knack for different things.

And New York has another kind of knack for contemporary art.

She has a real knack for getting people to do what she wants.

They're both exactly the same size and shape to an uncanny degree.

The palu also had an uncanny ability to forecast weather conditions days in advance.

And we were able to cross this line, called the uncanny valley, in terms of artificial intelligence terms.

For one thing, he possessed an uncanny ability to empathize with and to think about other peoples' point of view.

There are also things, quite uncanny, which bring me information that will help me in the writing of the book.

Illustrious jugglers the Raspyni Brothers show off their uncanny balance, agility, coordination and willingness to sacrifice . Now, if you'll just stand completely still...

Different generations of Darrell men solved their debt crises by marrying rich old women I imagine them as a bunch of handsome guys, with a knack for wooing heiresses.

And it's uncanny there's no way I can explain to you the amount of eye contact you get with that physical face projected on a 3D CRT of that sort.

Musical innovator Andrew Bird winds together his trademark violin technique with xylophone, vocals and sophisticated electronic looping. Add in his uncanny ability to whistle anything, and he becomes a riveting one man orchestra.

The report observes that, during the year, new challenges and threats heightened international concern about weapons of mass destruction, an uncanny presaging of the High level Plenary Meeting outcome document, which speaks volumes about that subject by not saying a word.

Moreover, the US and Europe have already used large doses of fiscal stimulus, which shares an uncanny similarity to antibiotics. Administered over a short duration, it can be a powerful antidote but, used repeatedly over too long a period, the side effects can outstrip the benefits.

To be sure, China is careful to avoid any dramatic action that could become a casus belli by itself. Indeed, it has repeatedly shown a knack for disaggregating its strategy into multiple parts and then pursuing each element separately in such a manner as to allow the different pieces to fall into place with minimal resistance.

As is the case in any country s leadership transition, no one knows for certain whether China s incoming administration is up to the multiplicity of challenges that they face. Since the days of Deng, China has had an uncanny ability to rise to the occasion and meet its challenges head on.

Many commercially available computer programs can be set to mimic the styles of top grandmasters to an extent that is almost uncanny. Indeed, chess programs now come very close to passing the late British mathematician Alan Turing s ultimate test of artificial intelligence can a human conversing with the machine tell it is not human?