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Recent Examples of ghoulish
The gigs have a ghoulish tint, since the basic idea is for former employees to teach AI how to do their old jobs.
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Krystle Vermes,
Futurism,
13 May 2026
The context that so many Democrats leave out is that when the law was passed, the United States was contending with a ghoulish infrastructure of laws and policies that were explicitly aimed at Black Americans.
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Torrey Snow,
Baltimore Sun,
6 May 2026
But beyond a fascination with ghoulish goings-on, fans of true crime podcasts connect with the hosts differently from followers of other kinds of interview shows.
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Todd Spangler,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2026
Of course, there’s something ghoulish about profiting from natural disasters—or wars.
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Danny Funt,
New Yorker,
12 Dec. 2025
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Krystle Vermes,
Futurism,
13 May 2026
The context that so many Democrats leave out is that when the law was passed, the United States was contending with a ghoulish infrastructure of laws and policies that were explicitly aimed at Black Americans.
—
Torrey Snow,
Baltimore Sun,
6 May 2026
But beyond a fascination with ghoulish goings-on, fans of true crime podcasts connect with the hosts differently from followers of other kinds of interview shows.
—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2026
Of course, there’s something ghoulish about profiting from natural disasters—or wars.
—
Danny Funt,
New Yorker,
12 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghoulish
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As Samara Morgan, the lank-haired little girl dressed in white and possessing deadly supernatural powers, at just 12 years old Chase became the ghostly face of the film and its most recognizable character.
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How did the ghostly choir samples of Philly drill pop up in Stockton goon music?
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The visual intersperses footage from a trip the pair took to Iceland with clips of their Upstate New York home, a fitting backdrop to Sprague’s spectral vocals and wandering synth arcs.
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However, Cher believes that her ex is nevertheless a spectral presence in her life.
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Avoiding vulnerability comes with ghastly consequences.
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He's described as a dead ringer for Nicholas Cage's ghastly villain in Longlegs, and there Elliott sits at a bus stop, looking as freakish as ever.
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Tree made eerie comments about his will just weeks before his death.
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Ahead of his Annecy premiere, Variety spoke with Kadowaki about his technique, a singular blend of 2D animation and rotoscoping underlined the eerie atmosphere of his coming-of-age story.
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The scene when Emily Blunt speaks in alien tongues was deeply spooky.
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The feel of it is really spooky.
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But what feels most haunting about the arc of then to now, about Smith’s unfathomable issues and woes — yet obvious heart and particularly evident quest to find himself in recent years — is that his words then were spoken with a sense of arrival and past tense.
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One of the movie’s most haunting subplots involves prisoners, who are pulled from labor camps looking half-dead and subsequently folded into Michael Caine‘s soccer team at the Brit’s insistence, but possibly to his squad’s detriment.
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The cast is rounded out by Coco Jones as Laila’s bestie Jasmine and Langley Kirkwood as the family’s creepy butler.
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That geographic blandness only emphasizes the film’s other shortcomings, such as Schoenaerts’s anonymous work as the villain (a lot of glowering and creepy glares) and the rather rote big-sister/little-sister arc given to Supergirl and Ruthye.
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Diners have toasted to him ever since, trading stories of feeling ghostlike brushes along their legs during Lowcountry meals.
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“Ghoulish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghoulish. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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