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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraithlike
Adjective
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Ahead of me, five more disembodied beams skittered across the snow, each emitting from the skiers ahead of me.—
Tim Neville,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Jan. 2026 -
In the late 18th century, just a few decades before Mary Shelley wrote her science fiction masterpiece, the Italian surgeon Luigi Galvani jolted the scientific community with experiments that used metal and electricity to compel disembodied frog legs to kick.—
Elise Cutts,
Quanta Magazine,
12 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Creepy campfire tales of a ghostly demon who causes still-births for unsuspecting mothers the world over doesn’t help her own peace of mind.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
25 Jan. 2026
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Its ghostly guitar melodies float as its basslines thud along, growing both more menacing and dejected as Katz’s depression becomes impossible to outrun.—
Grace Robins-Somerville,
Pitchfork,
23 Jan. 2026
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Her testimony led to the U.K.’s first bodiless murder conviction.—
Udita Jhunjhunwala,
Variety,
22 Nov. 2025
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As is always the political case in this city, crime is spoken about in a faceless and bodiless manner, even when the numbers of those who kill and who are killed by gunfire remain high among this group: young, Black and male.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Positioned as a large-scale genre event, the series updates the legendary SFX property with a contemporary political and social edge, with Shun Oguri leading the cast as a detective hunting a seemingly incorporeal killer.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Jan. 2026
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In fact, magical life has the potential to be even more radically incorporeal than our own.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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Thematically, this movie is about flight and transportation — both the physical flights that one takes, but also the emotional and spiritual flights.—
Jason Parham,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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Aaron, who lost more than 200 pounds following a near-death experience in 2021, has described his previous health scare as a spiritual wake-up call.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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There’s flashbacks like spectral memories.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
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But the vastness was really about fostering conditions in which his spectral harmonies could thrive.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Following suit, Fanning’s skirt included the same formless shape with an irregular, midi hemline.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
13 Nov. 2025
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Although the cloud sounds like an abstract, formless entity, its physical location matters: Proximity to cloud data centers determines how quickly users can access internet platforms.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Fraudulent images and phantom citations would embed themselves deeper and deeper in our systems of knowledge.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
22 Jan. 2026
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Members have said that the abuse occurred through over-billing, false records, identity theft, and phantom claims in Medicaid social service and health programs for the elderly, disabled, addicted, and homeless.—
Emily Hallas,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Wraithlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wraithlike. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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