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Recent Examples of apparition Since the 1920s, apparition of a young woman has been seen hitchhiking here, only to disappear when drivers come to her aid. Elizabeth Friend, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2024 Our hopes for the power of small transformations may be misplaced, while the power of the sudden apparition—The drones are here! Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024 La Virgen had made apparitions to Juan Diego between Dec. 9-12, 1531 on Mexico City’s hill of Tepeyac in between tending to an ailing uncle. Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2024 Here's a look at some of the strange ghost experiences that staff, visitors, and past residents have had while in the White House: A musical presidential apparition Unable to view our graphics? Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for apparition 
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Noun
  • Weathered homes built in Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman Bungalow, and Queen Anne styles line Hemphill like ghosts from a thriving era.
    Richard J. Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Cheesecake, like most teen-agers, likes to sleep a lot—Somma compared her to a cat in this regard—and she can often be found beneath a blanket in her comfortable glass-and-steel enclosure in the main house, impersonating a ghost.
    Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • On the cruise’s opening day, strong winds on the high seas did not stop the spirit from delivering.
    Essence, Essence, 2 Feb. 2025
  • In that regard, Renaissance architects were much closer in spirit to Renaissance writers than to Renaissance painters: Renaissance writers, too, tried to revive a classical language—mainly Cicero’s Latin—by imitating a corpus of extant ancient sources.
    Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But some analysts are worried investors might be cheering a mere phantom.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2025
  • On Friday, a team of researchers argued that the fish was a phantom all along.
    Jason Nark, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025

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“Apparition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apparition. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.

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