as in ghost
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
the people who once lived here believed that their world was populated by wraiths and witches
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraith
Noun
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Could this woman be the ghost of a student activist who led a sit-in at the university in the 1960s, then mysteriously disappeared?—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Aug. 2025
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Bok-i, the dog ghost, was the only guardian spirit.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Festivities will finish with a lantern lighting ceremony at around 8 p.m. Six stone lanterns and paper lanterns will be released on the Japanese Garden pond and the Frog Pond so that, according to the tradition, spirits can return to their resting places.—
Kathryn Kovalenko,
Twin Cities,
13 Aug. 2025
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This shared spirit between Magnolia Pearl and brands like Foreign Tongues as well as other artisan-first labels points to a rising current in fashion—a rejection of disposability, trend-chasing, and mass-production-at-all-costs.—
Tanya Benedicto Klich,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 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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“Wraith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wraith. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.
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