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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraithlike
Adjective
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Even as disembodied typists, the bots can beguile.—
Damon Beres,
The Atlantic,
5 Nov. 2025 -
That’s why so many are anxious, medicated, or disembodied.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Some of these are described by a narrator and visualized as ghostly incursions from the past.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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But as old tensions flare between them, Katie begins to experience terrifying visions and a ghostly presence warning of something sinister lurking aboard.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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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
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That the bodiless voice of Captain Kafetzis was now coming to me live from above my proprietary Cashmere mattress indicated the obvious seriousness of what had happened in the night.—
Lauren Oyler,
Harper’s Magazine ,
10 Apr. 2023
Adjective
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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
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Indeed, in stark contrast to the incorporeal nature of a digital image, each of Winant’s photographs is, in a sense, a discrete body: a fallible material entity that boasts a hidden physical history and that will compositionally deteriorate over time.—
Jessica Simmons-Reid,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
Adjective
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If this group of hardened degenerates was able to enjoy the action at this level, who, exactly, are the spiritual victims of sports betting?—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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This could look like spontaneous travel plans, shifting your career focus or even a spiritual awakening.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The story follows four standalone, but interlinked tales, each inspired by an iconic Chinese dish and tied together by a spectral chef, who presides over a mysterious, otherwordly restaurant.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
10 Nov. 2025
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This detection is possible because the two colonizing lichen species, Rusavskia elegans and Xanthomendoza trachyphylla, exhibit distinct spectral properties.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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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
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But Safdie’s script is at times formless and somewhat baggy.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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It was leased for him by his mother, one of the many eccentricities friends and former business associates described about the otherwise phantom-like man who was always on the cusp of a blockbuster that never quite materialized.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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And because, like most other amputees, her brain was continuing to receive and interpret nerve signals as if her limbs were still there, Lulu also was experiencing severe phantom pain.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Wraithlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wraithlike. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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