wraithlike

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraithlike
Adjective
  • Of course, the ghostly structure isn't a real bone, but rather a galactic center filament, one of many massive structures created by radio waves threaded along magnetic fields at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
    Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 7 May 2025
  • Another team, led by astronomer Yimeng Tang at the University of California, Santa Cruz, compared FCC 224's properties to other galaxies that seemingly lack dark matter, focusing on two ghostly objects within the NGC 1052 group about 65 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • If reason teaches that God is incorporeal, this means that God has no body; God does not physically see, nor do people see God.
    Randy L. Friedman, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The digital files are incorporeal.
    BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
Adjective
  • For deeper spiritual guidance, Tarot and Angel Card Readings offer encouragement and clarity about the past, present, and future.
    Kate Donnelly, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • For less-religious students, some of their first conversations about spiritual matters may be with chaplains.
    Cornelia Powers, The Atlantic, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • The technique captures light across a range of spectral bands beyond what the human eye can see.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • When astronomers examined the spectrum of Van Maanen 2 on one of these plates, they were astonished to see spectral features usually associated with much more massive stars—namely, a strong calcium absorption line in the star’s atmosphere.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • With intentionally provocative lyrics, the song takes profane aim at the hypocrisy of anti-LGBTQ+ Christian conservatives, who refuse to respect trans people’s personhood all while applying gender individualism to an ostensibly formless, all-encompassing God.
    Abby Monteil, Them, 24 Mar. 2025
  • What do these formless smudges on the page mean?
    Jack Lang, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • As the casualties have mounted, locals have speculated on everything from the birds being electrocuted by power lines to a phantom serial bird killer being on the loose.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 12 May 2025
  • Last month, Mulaney hosted Letterman — one of his absurdist late night heroes — on an episode focused on the lack of information men have about their height as part of a series-long gag about the phantom problem.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • The song’s ethereal canvas allows Peso to deliver a more intimate performance, nearly whispered, in contrast to his in-your-face delivery when singing corridos.
    Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 16 May 2025
  • Cinema is too small a word for what this sprawling yet intimate epic achieves in its ethereal, unnerving brilliance; forget Cannes, forget the Competition, forget the whole year, even — Sound of Falling is an all-timer.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • Though its name suggests a nootropics concern or a purveyor of networked exercise equipment, Superhuman’s unbodied offering is productivity software for the inbox.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 17 July 2019
  • Deleuze and Guattari, in Anti-Oedipus, see in it the model of a new kind of reasoning: schizoid, unbodied, and diffuse.
    Sam Kriss, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
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“Wraithlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wraithlike. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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