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Adjective
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With glowing eyes, a chilling Vincent Price-style voice (delivering deliciously cheesy dialogue), and four points of ghostly animatronic movement, this bony specter is every bit the haunted showstopper.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
3 Oct. 2025 -
Perhaps there’s a haunting to be had in this injustice; perhaps these war dead, with the truth of their deaths hidden and covered up at the time, have left their own ghostly imprint upon the bay, drawing forth further inexplicable sights, sounds, and activity.—
Leanna Renee Hieber,
Big Think,
2 Oct. 2025
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Among the most famous is Julian Eltinge, a longtime patron and vaudeville star, who’s said to have made the occasional spectral appearance.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
26 Sep. 2025
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Previous research has pursued a number of different ways to recover spectral details from conventional smartphone RGB camera data.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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These calls -- known as swatting -- panicked at least a dozen schools as police rush to campuses, chasing phantom threats with many of them being racially motivated and targeting historically Black colleges and universities.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Alias Pro features a 25mm cardioid condenser capsule that captures detailed, natural vocals, paired with a mixer that supplies phantom power and intuitive controls.—
Shubham Yewale,
PC Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Ghostlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghostlike. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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