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Recent Examples of ghosting
The more often people talk about ghosting, the more people seem to ghost.
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Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
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Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghosting
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The stock closed at a record high of $237 — padding out year-to-date gains to 117%.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
6 May 2026
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From his earliest days as an agent, Meredith proudly flouted industry convention while inflating his own reputation and padding his bank account.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
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Audiences have championed the films for their creeping realism and slow-building scares that made ordinary bedrooms, hallways and home security cameras feel terrifying.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
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This low-mounding shade perennial sends up taller, slender stems with airy flower clusters, and the groundcover spreads by slowly creeping rhizomes.—
Judy Nauseef,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 May 2026
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Exactly one year after nipping Marist in the state finals at Duluth’s Cecil Morris Field, the Blessed Trinity Titans did it again in an identical manner, edging Marist 1-0 in the GHSA Class 4A girls’ soccer state championship game on Friday night.—
Jeff Gable,
AJC.com,
16 May 2026
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Arsenal are edging closer to their first title since the Arsene Wenger era, while the scope of the relegation battle has narrowed to the point of Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham scrapping against each other for survival.—
Graham Ruthven,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
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“Ghosting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghosting. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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