wraith

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Recent Examples of wraith Many slide hopelessly back into lives as nearly invisible wraiths, measured in the intervals between fixes — and arrests. Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2024 Discovery, two of the bigger owners of these cable-network wraiths, haven’t had much to show for keeping them up and running. Brian Steinberg, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024 Human puppets swayed over a Pont like wraiths of those who had been staked there. 🎾 Follow Sports Dashing through it all was the torchbearer, his identity unknown. Sally Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 July 2024 And the second revealed the full menagerie of creatures that will appear in Season 2, including wraiths, wolves, ents and a giant cave troll. Jordan Moreau, Variety, 26 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for wraith
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Noun
  • But what do the locals actually think of their vampire-like namesake, who is believed to be the vengeful ghost of a woman who died in pregnancy or childbirth? To find out, researcher Timo Duile headed to Pontianak for conversations with ethnic Malay Muslim and Dayak Christian residents.
    H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 5 July 2025
  • The ghosts of late 1950s-early 1960s country favorites Maybelle Carter and Patsy Cline share space with pop-soul icons The Shirelles.
    Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Venus reaches its point of greatest western elongation on June 1, at which time the dazzling 'morning star' will be at its most distant point from the sun in Earth's sky during its pre-dawn apparition.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 31 May 2025
  • The more apparitions that arrive, the more the Delta blues mashes up with hip-hop, rock, and other styles.
    EW.com, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The fun-loving spirit of the shimmery product was captured in the punky campaign, inspired by the 2012 thriller in which Gomez starred alongside Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine and James Franco.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 8 July 2025
  • There was no moment in the tournament that better captured the spirit of football and its role as an emotional release valve than when every member of the squad hounded Gray.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Rubin hopes to tally these same sorts of deep-space particles, the kind that all of Earth is constantly microdosing, phantom starlight from the farthest reaches of the universe.
    Michael Jones McKean, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025
  • At least until quarter to 2, when Lindsay Lohan whorls through the door like a raspy chaos phantom.
    Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025

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“Wraith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wraith. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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