ghosting

present participle of ghost

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ghosting The more often people talk about ghosting, the more people seem to ghost. Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ghosting
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghosting
Verb
  • This direction—padding the ensemble with social-media-friendly faces—represents more of a nudge toward the future than a massive overhaul.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Mahomes is also padding his long list of sponsors, partnering with Airbnb and Hublot and agreeing to autograph Panini trading cards for the first time in five years.
    Brett Knight, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The latest forecast shows Imelda creeping along Florida’s coast for the next few days — a slowdown from Saturday’s forecast.
    Alex Harris Updated September 28, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
  • First, during this same time, genre elements, and specifically dark speculative elements, were creeping into all fiction.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Pressure short of war Nonetheless, expectations of a military clash are edging upward.
    Robert Muggah, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The Senate on Tuesday, as expected, failed to approve a GOP stopgap to keep the government funded or a Democratic alternative, edging the government closer to a midnight shutdown.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Ghosting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghosting. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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