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as in apparition
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
looked for ghosts in the graveyard on Halloween
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as in damn
the smallest amount or part imaginable
she may be a good endurance runner, but she doesn't stand a ghost of a chance of winning in a sprint
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as in relic
a tiny often physical indication of something lost or vanished
the down-at-the-heels town house is but a ghost of the neighborhood's former grandeur
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as in demon
an evil spirit
the vengeful ghosts of seamen who were deliberately shipwrecked upon these shores
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Recent Examples of ghost
Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026
San Diego is where Pitino’s basketball ghosts, after hounding him for decades, were sent far away, perhaps for good.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
Meet monster characters, watch live shows, purchase special food and drinks and ride the disco dragon coaster or ghost cruise.
—Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Meanwhile, Yellowstone ghosts will continue to haunt Kayce as Marshals continues, including the sins of his family — which very much involve Beth and Rip.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026
San Diego is where Pitino’s basketball ghosts, after hounding him for decades, were sent far away, perhaps for good.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
Verb
First, Anna Yuan decided to leave the pods and ghost her connections, which included Blake.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
Meet monster characters, watch live shows, purchase special food and drinks and ride the disco dragon coaster or ghost cruise.
—Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghost
Noun
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For example, the apparition of his first wife, Grace Shelby (Annabelle Wallis), appeared a handful times in season five.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Mar. 2026
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The story follows a young woman who regains consciousness after three years in a coma, only to be confronted by the apparition of her deceased sister, as their mother’s search for the truth behind the sister’s death gradually uncovers a dark hereditary secret stretching back centuries.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
17 Mar. 2026
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What is emerging instead is a stewardship model that treats vital ecosystems, like coral reefs, as dynamic systems requiring maintenance, repair, and adaptation, much like roads, damns, and power grids.—
Bill Frist,
Forbes.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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My parents have no idea what’s happening because legacy media is not reporting on anything worth a damn.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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But SROs are a relic of a different and older New York City.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
26 Mar. 2026
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Others, like the dialogue around race in casting, feel like a relic of that discourse’s peak in the 2010s.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2026
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The Saja Boys, a boy band made up of demons, attempt to disrupt that mission.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
24 Mar. 2026
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Most notable of these other wives is Vrinda, the chaste wife of the demon Jalandhar.—
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz,
The Conversation,
24 Mar. 2026
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Manning padded his on-field earnings with an unmatched endorsement portfolio as the NFL’s most marketable player for more than a decade.—
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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The Ducks broke a 2-2 tie and then padded their lead, finding themselves up two goals after 40 minutes.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
23 Mar. 2026
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Missile exchanges have jarred with the spirit of the holidays underway across the region.—
Siham Shamalakh,
Washington Post,
22 Mar. 2026
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Waddle is a diminutive deity in Texas, where whispers of his spirit twist across baseball diamonds and basketball courts and football fields from Bellaire to the Woodlands to Dallas.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
22 Mar. 2026
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Theroux is a hoot as the cult fixer with a past, thoroughly having a blast as this mysterious guy whose shaky history is about to catch up with him.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2026
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Say those owls are like four, five hundred yards away, and your owl hoot makes those owls take off or start hooting.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
11 Mar. 2026
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The satellite also hosts the European Union’s Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission, which aims to monitor key air quality trace gases and aerosols over Europe in support of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) at high spatial resolution and with a fast revisit time.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 Mar. 2026
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The three artists combined have sold millions of records, garnered dozens of awards, and left a memorable musical trace on Nashville and beyond.—
Melonee Hurt,
USA Today,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Ghost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghost. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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