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Walt Disney Imagineering will introduce a new ghostly bride using projection technology in the Haunted Mansion’s attic scene when the classic dark ride returns today, Jan. 18 after shedding its annual holiday overlay.—
Brady MacDonald,
Orange County Register,
18 Jan. 2025 -
Astronaut shoots a shadowy Dragon Monday, November 4, 2024: NASA astronaut Don Pettit snapped this ghostly photo of SpaceX's Crew Dragon Freedom docked at the International Space Station.—
Space.com Staff,
Space.com,
1 Jan. 2025
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Yet she is also maimed in a hospital bed on the other end of the country, lending all of their interactions, every memory related and fact revealed, a spectral quality, as if Kyungha is like Odysseus traveling to the underworld for knowledge.—
Robert Rubsam,
Vulture,
22 Jan. 2025
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The director conjures the house’s spectral presence by means of an unusual cinematic device that dominates the movie from start to finish: the camera embodies the perspective of that invisible character.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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That doesn't rule out that other pollsters are generating phantom swings by updating their weights, of course.—
G. Elliott Morris,
ABC News,
13 Jan. 2025
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But that estimate sharply dropped once authorities subtracted the amount of phantom investment gains and interest that Madoff’s customers were duped into believing existed.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
30 Dec. 2024
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“Ghostlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghostlike. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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