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Recent Examples of phantasm But eventually, the duo turned the phantasm into solid logic. Quanta Magazine, 15 July 2021 Southern lawmakers baselessly claimed Black men were lynched for raping White women -- a phantasm that still haunts Black men -- and asserted laws governing lynchings were best left to the states. Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 27 May 2021 The album, produced by pop artisan Greg Kurstin (Adele, Paul McCartney), is a conceptual rumination on these apocalyptic times, from war to salvation with a sprinkle of biblical phantasm. Steven J. Horowitz, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2021 That the nocturnal ritual fantasy is no fantasy, that every phantasm is a sign. Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020 See All Example Sentences for phantasm
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Noun
  • The show consisted of several live-feed illusions, ecological sculptures, and installations using organic materials, lighting, and sound.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Increased and personalized long-term memory, in combination with the ability to act, is likely to create an illusion of vivid personalities in agents, even when that is not an explicit goal.
    Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • For much of its history, the Church has had to defend itself against accusations that levitations, apparitions, and other miracles were not the work of God but that of the devil.
    Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Todd, the neighbor, even the strange apparitions are obfuscated simply because of their height, which adds to the eerieness of Indy’s experience but also makes Indy’s recognition of Todd’s voice all the more emotional.
    Rafael Motamayor, IndieWire, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The bottom line: Uncle Sam's collection hat ruined the dream.
    Jason Clayworth, Axios, 14 Apr. 2025
  • As a job seeker, personal branding can make the difference between landing your dream job and disappearing into a pile of resumes.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Elytra Dark will serve as a transfer vehicle to bring the Blue ghost lander to the moon.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2025
  • But for all the ghost runners, bigger bases, pitch clocks, instant replays and (maybe) robot umps that spark debate, there’s one new rule that seems to be working really well.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Fans have bought into the vision of multiple general managers and the potential of a long list of high draft picks.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Amid an atmosphere of near-zero interest rates, venture-capital investors were drawn to grand plans and messianic visions, both of which Thurston was skilled at providing.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • To combat such phantoms, Georgian Dream has passed new legislation that criminalizes assembly and protest.
    Anastasiya Zavyalova, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Kevin Willard’s team had to confront the phantom that had haunted it through a quartet of Big Ten heartbreakers.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This usually includes medication (such as antipsychotics) to help control symptoms like delusions and hallucinations, and psychotherapy to provide support, education, and coping strategies.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Antipsychotic medications are commonly prescribed to reduce hallucinations, delusions, and other psychotic symptoms associated with schizophrenia.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • All those books teaching parents how to take care of their children—the first year, the first eighteen months, the first five or ten years—none of them addresses this difficulty: for parents and for children, the border between reality and unreality is not always clearly marked.
    Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
  • As the novel progresses, this sense of unreality sharpens.
    Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025

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“Phantasm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phantasm. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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