Meaning & use
mysteriously
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In a way that is difficult to explain or understand; strangely or secretively.
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The lights mysteriously turned off just as the story reached its climax.
He mysteriously vanished from the party without saying goodbye to anyone.
A note on using this word
The word pairs frequently with verbs of disappearance or change, as in 'mysteriously disappeared,' to heighten a sense of intrigue in narrative writing.
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strangelyinexplicably
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