as in ghostly
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Adjective
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Another team, led by astronomer Yimeng Tang at the University of California, Santa Cruz, compared FCC 224's properties to other galaxies that seemingly lack dark matter, focusing on two ghostly objects within the NGC 1052 group about 65 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
18 Apr. 2025 -
The parting words of this ghostly image of her have been lodged in Ray’s mind way past its welcome.—
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
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McDowell says this is because the Airbus Pleiades satellite likely snapped the photo using different spectral bands.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
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Instead, Mu Cassiopeia A is a simple field star --- a yellow dwarf of the same spectral type as our own sun, but one that clocks in at an astonishing 12.7 billion years old.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Standby power, also known as phantom power, is the power an item uses while it's turned off.—
Claire Hoppe Norgaard,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Apr. 2025
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The company can gain a sense of the marketplace by posting phantom jobs.—
Jack Kelly,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Ghostlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghostlike. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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