as in ghostly
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Adjective
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Threading together hyperspeed drums and a ghostly ambience, Balenci creates a sort of supernatural drill.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
28 Feb. 2025 -
While Banderas is entertaining playing multiple roles as Hunter and his many ghostly ancestors, Olivia Colman gives the movie’s standout performance as the Reverend Mother of the bear retirement home from which Aunt Lucy vanished.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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To have any hope of outrunning the spectral presence, the player must commit a serpentine route to memory.—
Lewis Gordon,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Who’s to say there isn’t a spectral widow wandering the tracks by moonlight, searching for her husband’s head?—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The phantom proposal would need approval by the City Council and the Legislature.—
Christian Browne,
New York Daily News,
23 Feb. 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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“Ghostlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghostlike. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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