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Adjective
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The book’s heroine, Catherine Morland, is an avid reader of the popular novels of the day, and has a specific fondness for Ann Radcliffe’s real-life 1794 best seller, The Mysteries of Udolpho, a tale of ghostly figures and hidden manuscripts.—
Boris Kachka,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026 -
That phrase will take on new meaning this July as Disneyland announced its famed ghostly estate will become available for weddings for the first time.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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The potential greening-and-browning of the continents with seasonal variations, with spectral signatures potentially revealing the chemical products powering life on that world.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
17 Feb. 2026
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The ghost in Beloved was not Morrison’s first spectral being.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
17 Feb. 2026
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Then there's SpongeBob SquarePants, whose latest movie finds the iconic character venturing to the creepy Underworld with a dastardly phantom pirate.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
20 Feb. 2026
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Through the striking comparison of yesterday’s expectations and the mundane reality of those who were born and raised in the shadow of a phantom project, Rosario Minervini performs a dissection of clinical precision of the delays that have weighed down Italy’s collective psyche over time.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Ghostlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghostlike. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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