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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraithlike
Adjective
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Ghost Tour: Take a night tour through the eerie streets of Bisbee, known for its haunted past and the ghostly tales of its mining days.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 July 2025 -
Their love is reignited in the most unlikely form, but not everyone welcomes her return—especially March’s family, still unsettled by a ghostly presence that appeared after a factory worker’s death forced their business to close.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
1 July 2025
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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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To the casual observer, the data industry can seem incorporeal, its products conjured out of weightless bits.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Oct. 2024
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The series invites fans on a metaphysical road trip through the West Coast sunset with a euphoric lineup designed to illuminate audiences and create space for community, connection and spiritual transformation.—
Caroline Tell,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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In Austin as elsewhere, the Roman Catholic faithful gathered Monday to mourn the death of their spiritual head, Pope Francis. More than 100 parishioners attended noon Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in downtown Austin.—
Emiliano Tahui Gómez,
Austin American Statesman,
15 July 2025
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The team noticed that eureka moments seemed to be highly correlated with a steep EEG spectral slope—the steeper the slope, the more likely people were to get a breakthrough.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 July 2025
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In his music, the phrase takes on a spectral weight: five leaves left on a tree, trembling as summer slips into fall; five moments of clarity before sleep; five truths too delicate for morning.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
5 July 2025
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Instead, in too many formless episodes, Season 4 favors quiet solo scenes (Syd perfects a dish amid dramatic lighting and a haunting St. Vincent track, in a set piece that looks lovely but has nothing new to say) and earnest two-handers.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
26 June 2025
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But if Charity’s case history imposes some order and fixity on Eugene’s life, the rest of The Knockout Artist reads like an attempt to thwart this, to replace the tidiness of explanation with something more formless and free.—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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The system notices when safety sensors aren’t talking to each other right and fixes them before those phantom braking glitches.—
Raghu Para,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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For another, a one-and-done remedy for the condition’s most debilitating manifestations is, quite simply, a phantom goal.—
Caren Zucker,
The Atlantic,
6 July 2025
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Fog often rolls in before noon, lending the place an ethereal, slightly surreal quality.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
14 July 2025
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The ethereal pop anthem, which channels, and was later championed by, Lana Del Rey, also felt like a hit.—
Mike Wass,
Variety,
9 July 2025
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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
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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 26 Jul. 2025.
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