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Adjective
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Ghost Tour: Take a night tour through the eerie streets of Bisbee, known for its haunted past and the ghostly tales of its mining days.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 July 2025 -
Their love is reignited in the most unlikely form, but not everyone welcomes her return—especially March’s family, still unsettled by a ghostly presence that appeared after a factory worker’s death forced their business to close.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
1 July 2025
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In his music, the phrase takes on a spectral weight: five leaves left on a tree, trembling as summer slips into fall; five moments of clarity before sleep; five truths too delicate for morning.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
5 July 2025
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Each material, including pollutants, has a unique spectral signature that allows scientists to identify it.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 June 2025
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The system notices when safety sensors aren’t talking to each other right and fixes them before those phantom braking glitches.—
Raghu Para,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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For another, a one-and-done remedy for the condition’s most debilitating manifestations is, quite simply, a phantom goal.—
Caren Zucker,
The Atlantic,
6 July 2025
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“Ghostlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghostlike. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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