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as in relic
a tiny often physical indication of something lost or vanished the down-at-the-heels town house is but a ghost of the neighborhood's former grandeur

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verb

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ghost
Noun
Many viewers won’t know that this film is shot from a ghost’s perspective before seeing it. J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025 Image ‘Presence’ This quietly tense chiller directed by Steven Soderberg is told from the perspective of a ghost who haunts a family home and takes particular interest in the daughter, Chloe (Callina Liang). The New York Times, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
After navigating the ups and downs of the job search, which included countless hours of preparation and interviews, last-minute meeting cancellations and being ghosted by prospective employers, getting a job offer feels like a huge weight lifted. Jack Kelly, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025 Worse yet, the company seems to be ghosting customers seeking repairs. Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ghost 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghost
Noun
  • There’s a kind of Gothic quality to the apparitions, calling to mind Edward Gorey figures, but all smeared and melted and smudged.
    Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
  • There have been no sightings, no fleeting apparitions.
    David Ornstein, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Shortly thereafter, Facebook changed its name to Meta and sank $45 billion into its vision of a digital universe that most people just don’t seem to give much of a damn about.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2024
  • But the rate at which people are ditching cable suggests that carriage fees won’t be worth a tinker’s damn by the time the looming batch of NBA deals expires.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 July 2024
Noun
  • Highland is a relic of several bygone eras: one in which burial grounds were segregated by race, but also one where cemeteries played a more active role in community and religious life.
    Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The pure simplicity of 2-D games like Tecmo Bowl, Pac-Man, and even the raging kitchen fires within The Sims, are relics of a more facile era in gaming.
    David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But as Korean conservatives prepare for a long night of wrestling with their demons, liberals are facing troubles of their own.
    John Delury, Foreign Affairs, 27 Jan. 2025
  • What if Valeri Nichushkin’s personal demons hadn’t led to him leaving the team in the playoffs for two straight years?
    Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The primary winners in two GOP-heavy districts are expected to help Republicans in Congress pad a narrow 3-seat majority that will get even slimmer if U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican of New York, is confirmed as Trump’s United Nations ambassador.
    Steven Lemongello, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Other leaders wondered whether executives close to Trump would use that access to help build up their industries — or just to pad their own interests.
    Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 23 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
  • Mathematicians greeted his assertions with hoots of laughter, called out to friends across the room, and threw paper airplanes.
    Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Photographed by Ben Weller, British Vogue, January 2025 Marianne Jean-Baptiste is a hoot.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Police had searched repeatedly for any trace of Dee Warner, but found no sign of her dead or alive, and no signs of violence.
    Sarah Prior, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • However, authorities found no evidence of blood traces or a struggle in the estranged wife’s Madrid apartment after she was reported missing.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025

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“Ghost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghost. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.

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