as in haunting
of, relating to, or suggestive of a ghost
They spotted a spectral figure in the window of the old abandoned house.
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Recent Examples of spectral
Forthcoming observations of the planet scheduled with Hubble — and potentially even the James Webb Space Telescope — could help determine whether the signals seen so far are due to stellar spectral contamination or are actually caused by a planetary atmosphere, the study reports.
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Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
The paper discusses working with spectral images containing 31 distinct channels and even shows examples with as many as 81 spectral bands.
—ArsTechnica, 28 Mar. 2025
In many cases, physicists can calculate the spectral gap for a specific atom or material.
—Charlie Wood, Wired News, 6 Apr. 2025
And by scouring the planets’ atmospheres, astrobiologists hoped to search for the spectral fingerprints of life.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
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Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
The paper discusses working with spectral images containing 31 distinct channels and even shows examples with as many as 81 spectral bands.
—ArsTechnica, 28 Mar. 2025
In many cases, physicists can calculate the spectral gap for a specific atom or material.
—Charlie Wood, Wired News, 6 Apr. 2025
And by scouring the planets’ atmospheres, astrobiologists hoped to search for the spectral fingerprints of life.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spectral
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The director also discussed his approach to specific technical elements, including a haunting, silent earthquake scene that was designed not to trigger audiences who had experienced actual seismic events.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2025
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Dennis Quaid is set to mark a haunting role in his filmography: Playing a serial killer.—
Vincent Perella,
IndieWire,
10 Mar. 2025
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Disappearing from the table, my father returned with that eerie icon of the naked woman.—
Eliza Griswold,
New Yorker,
19 Apr. 2025
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Related article An eerie spiral lit up the European skies.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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Gabriela’s stalker exit arc & likely return DEADLINE: After being put through the ringer the last three seasons, Gabriela got to end her arc with a creepy stalker storyline.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
25 Apr. 2025
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It has been forged with integrity, especially in the superior first act, before the show gets trapped in one of its bespoke devices: creepy stuff happening during the production of a high school play.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
23 Apr. 2025
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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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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
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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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It’s been a weird year for some of the league’s best closers.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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On the other hand, this three-month gap is a little weird.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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Armed with her signature razor-sharp wit and deadpan charm, Wednesday is also plunged into a new bone-chilling supernatural mystery.—
DeVonne Goode,
Parents,
23 Apr. 2025
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The rules allow investigators of every social class and how to bring them together for a game of supernatural mystery.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Spectral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spectral. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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