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A ghostly figure appears in the house at night.
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Shackleton began collecting interviews and shot evocative B-roll footage of ghostly California freeways and parking lots where the killer may have once lurked.
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2025
At the universe's grandest scales, galaxy clusters collide in slow-motion cataclysms, leaving behind immense, ghostly arcs — vast ribbons of diffuse radio emissions that can stretch across millions of light-years.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 21 Nov. 2025
We’re left examining ghostly traces of ideas that won’t coalesce into an ideology.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2025
The seafloor carpeted in ghostly skeletons of dead coral reefs.
—Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2025
At the universe's grandest scales, galaxy clusters collide in slow-motion cataclysms, leaving behind immense, ghostly arcs — vast ribbons of diffuse radio emissions that can stretch across millions of light-years.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 21 Nov. 2025
We’re left examining ghostly traces of ideas that won’t coalesce into an ideology.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2025
The seafloor carpeted in ghostly skeletons of dead coral reefs.
—Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
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“Ghostly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghostly. Accessed 26 Nov. 2025.
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ghostly
adjective
ghost·ly
ˈgōst-lē 
ghostlier; ghostliest
: of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a ghost
ghostliness
noun
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