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 The before-and-after pictures still astound: a skeletal wraith on the left, a rosy-cheeked child on the right. IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2015 See All Example Sentences for wraith
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraith
Noun
  • The bright orange bucket, sporting Home Depot's logo, features jack-o'-lanterns, bats, ghosts, spiders and spiderwebs.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The ghosts of the Federal Theatre still haunt the 102-year-old movie house, and David Lindoerfer has seen them.
    John Wenzel, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Ahead of the 500-year anniversary of the Virgin Mary’s apparition in Tepeyac, Mexico, the sculpture is embarking on a worldwide tour, with visits scheduled to Colombia, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, among other places.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In Lockwood’s world, the apparition of a saint is not strictly strange.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In that spirit, the exhibition resists the expectation that women and non-binary artists must define themselves in contrast to a male norm.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The spirit of his work, which earned him a humanism in medicine scholarship in medical school, is what prompted him to call Sutton-Schulman.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Future Antarctic and radio-neutrino arrays will decide if ANITA glimpsed a phantom or a frontier.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Because contemporary phantoms of Richard Mille, Patek Philippe, and Rolex are expertly constructed to entice even the most discerning eye, provenance is crucial.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Wraith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wraith. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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