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Recent Examples of ghostlike
Diners have toasted to him ever since, trading stories of feeling ghostlike brushes along their legs during Lowcountry meals.
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Chelsea Brasted, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
Chelsea Brasted, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghostlike
Adjective
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Visitors to the Old Idaho Penitentiary in Boise can explore a former prison with a history of escapes, crime and reported ghostly encounters.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2026
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Manifesting as red fabric that moves with ghostly grace, its presence inspired Coel both onscreen and off.—
Jack Smart,
PEOPLE,
15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Across this soppy set of songs, the sum of these frictions is cyborgish and spectral, music from a MacBook whose dying wish was to see the world.—
Samuel Hyland,
Pitchfork,
15 Apr. 2026
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In the photographs taken that day, Bruce has a spectral beauty, as if conjured out of the air.—
Andrew Durbin,
Vulture,
13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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These phantom costs drive up annual premiums.—
Jordan Bruneau,
Boston Herald,
25 Apr. 2026
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Developers routinely file speculative interconnection requests for projects that never get built, flooding queues with phantom demand.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Ghostlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghostlike. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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