How to Use the specter of (something) in a Sentence

the specter of (something)

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• But nothing seems to stop the gravy train, not even the specter of being called out in print.
  — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
• But a little more than a week into the new year, the specter of scandal reemerged.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• The narrative is grounded in the specter of death, in ways that can be a tad on-the-nose.
  — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
• Cities frequently have used the specter of rising crime rates as reason to pass the rules.
  — Liam Dillonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2023
• The beleaguered cries for medics are quickly drowned out by the tank’s treads as the specter of defeat draws near.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
• What once looked like a leisurely stroll to a division title now has the specter of collapse around it.
  — Josh Kendall, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
• That raises the specter of a tit-for-tat cycle of escalation.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
• Two elementary schools had merged and, at the time, the specter of other closures loomed.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2024
• Chief among them, for the athletes and the future of the Games, is the specter of systemic doping.
  — Marisa Guthrie, WWD, 14 June 2024
• He's also raised the specter of targeting the supreme leader himself.
  — ABC News, 22 June 2025
• With the specter of war crimes charges now hanging over the Israel-Hamas war, so too are questions.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
• But even as the specter of war looms over the country, many are operating normally.
  — Sarah El Sirgany, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024
• In the space of just a few months, the specter of artificial intelligence has come to haunt the world.
  — Diane Coyle, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• The combination of weak growth and rising prices is raising the specter of stagflation.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 16 May 2024
• But the situation has also raised the specter of the once unthinkable.
  — Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
• And the specter of an Argentina team that somehow lost its first World Cup match loomed.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 25 Nov. 2022
• But a flood of cheap models has raised the specter of another trade war with its Western trading partners.
  — Laura He, CNN, 18 June 2024
• None of it illuminates Carmy’s character the way the specter of his dead brother did.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
• Jackson is haunted by the specter of the dead child she is named after and by the other four family members who died in the wreck.
  — Lisa Page, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• But the new policy also raises the specter of a lawsuit over the ban and a host of questions about how the new rules will be applied.
  — Ann Schimke, Denver Post, 9 May 2025
• Although Assad is gone, the specter of chemical weapons still hangs over Syria.
  — Gregory D. Koblentz, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2024
• Which of course raises the specter of whether, if Harris wins, there will be Jan 6-style violence again.
  — Richard Behar, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
• Israeli demands for the mass evacuation of parts of Gaza have raised the specter of ethnic cleansing.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• The new forecast raised the specter of stagflation – a scenario of rising inflation as the economy’s growth slows.
  — Sean Conlon,hakyung Kim, CNBC, 20 Mar. 2025
• And through it all, the specter of Lewis’ bloody face hangs over her, a grisly harbinger of doom amid the endless meet-and-greets and dress rehearsals.
  — Abby Monteil, Them, 23 Oct. 2024
• For the moment, the indies and majors seem dedicated to buying and releasing movies — but the specter of the strikes still looms.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
• Many claim the specter of a young woman in a flowing white dress appears along Archer Avenue near the cemetery, asking for a ride.
  — Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2024
• Corporations used the specter of bird flu outbreaks to raise egg prices to a record high of nearly $5 per dozen in January of last year.
  — Wenonah Hauter, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
• But against those practicalities is the specter of how the anti-DEI laws will be enforced.
  — Danielle McLean, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024
• Yes, the specter of Montana still looms, even though Montana himself, sensitive to the burden of his legacy, tries not to loom.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2021