variants
or spectre
as in haunt
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
feeling so terrified that every shadow became a specter
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Recent Examples of specter
With the looming specters of inflation and tariffs, pricing is especially tricky these days.
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Por Adi Ignatius, Harvard Business Review, 28 July 2025
The specter of what happened in Pohang, South Korea, still looms.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 22 July 2025
Its specter can, overnight, reframe a conflict that already has cost 60,000 lives, and fueled tense global debates on morality, antisemitism, the laws of war.
—Karl Vick, Time, 1 Aug. 2025
Yet, this transition is fraught with risks: misconfigurations, compliance gaps and the constant specter of data breaches.
—Matthew Sweeney, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
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Por Adi Ignatius, Harvard Business Review, 28 July 2025
The specter of what happened in Pohang, South Korea, still looms.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 22 July 2025
Its specter can, overnight, reframe a conflict that already has cost 60,000 lives, and fueled tense global debates on morality, antisemitism, the laws of war.
—Karl Vick, Time, 1 Aug. 2025
Yet, this transition is fraught with risks: misconfigurations, compliance gaps and the constant specter of data breaches.
—Matthew Sweeney, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for specter
Noun
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But the popular haunt suffered its first major loss just three years later when Boyer died at age 40 on April 28, 2021.—
Bradley Hohulin,
IndyStar,
12 Aug. 2025
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Keep heading east to find the lively downtown, which is filled with restaurants specializing in cuisines from Creole to Italian plus haunts like Wine Society and the breweries Brighter Days and Two Frogs.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Bok-i, the dog ghost, was the only guardian spirit.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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While there are plenty of museums and historic attractions to visit, the city also offers theme parks like Busch Gardens, ghost tours and several art museums. 8.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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Lids pressed in pale pink shadow deliver detailing that’s the perfect balance between warm and cool.—
Calin Van Paris,
Vogue,
12 Aug. 2025
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At a time when all live-service games are living in the shadow of Fortnite, games like Call of Duty have mostly leaned into meme potential over any kind of strict creative vision or cohesive worldbuilding.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
12 Aug. 2025
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This is a pen that is both weighty and lighthearted – fitting for the home of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, whose life of bonhomie and good cheer was disrupted by adventure and dragons and ring wraiths and war.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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The First Shadow was an effect as magical as the telekinetic wraiths emanating above the actors’ bodies.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
30 Apr. 2025
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Gesturing toward cinema’s roots in 19th-century phantom rides and panoramas, FELT finds a dynamic new form for the sensory experience of space and movement.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Aug. 2025
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While phantoms of female anxiety, emotion, and pain proliferate across each timeline, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka articulate their own budding coming-of-age achingly, exquisitely.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
21 July 2025
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George’s horse spooks and flees; looking up at a ridge, Joe sees Yé’iitsoh.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
7 Apr. 2025
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The line-up of spooks will be familiar to fans of the British show, with some twists to account for French culture and history.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
4 Apr. 2025
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There’s nothing in the world quite like this abbey, located on an island and rising out of the bay like a heavenly apparition.—
Chloe Arrojado,
AFAR Media,
25 July 2025
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Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the rocky planet during its evening apparition in the post-sunset sky.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
2 July 2025
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“Specter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/specter. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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