as in haunting
of, relating to, or suggestive of a ghost
They spotted a spectral figure in the window of the old abandoned house.
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Recent Examples of spectral
The Dressy Ghosts of Victorian Literature Matthew Wills July 30, 2021
Realism was exceptionally well suited (heh) for elaborate descriptions of spectral clothing.
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 Oct. 2024
This Halloween month, people can explore Pleasanton’s spectral side with the Museum on Main’s annual Ghost Walk.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
The spectral emission lasted for about 40 seconds and reached a peak energy of about 12 MeV, compared to 2 or 3 MeB for visible light, per the authors.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 July 2024
Her spectral trip-hop incantations are a departure from the maximalist, four-on-the-floor Brat bops ripping through the internet.
—Suzy Exposito, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 Oct. 2024
This Halloween month, people can explore Pleasanton’s spectral side with the Museum on Main’s annual Ghost Walk.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
The spectral emission lasted for about 40 seconds and reached a peak energy of about 12 MeV, compared to 2 or 3 MeB for visible light, per the authors.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 July 2024
Her spectral trip-hop incantations are a departure from the maximalist, four-on-the-floor Brat bops ripping through the internet.
—Suzy Exposito, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024
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That film won best film while Laura Carreira’s haunting debut feature On Falling won the Sutherland Award in the First Feature Competition.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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But the song’s piano version, recorded earlier in 2018, is sparser and even more haunting.Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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Although the weather remained eerie, Ingham County voters found a way to the polls to clost out the 2024 election year.Arpan Lobo, Nushrat Rahman, Natalie Davies, Lindsay Tague, Alexander Boesch, Sarah Moore, Sophia Jundy, Mikia Lawrence, Alec Mork, Siddhi Choubey and Sonja Krohn, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
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Then the divers began to find porcelain, more than three hundred and fifty thousand pieces in all, many of them stacked in eerie columns, their wooden crates having rotted away.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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But the youngsters' older siblings took costume ideas into their own hands, with Luna rocking a creepy black-and-red clown look while Miles dressed up and dabbed as DJ Marshmello.Jen Juneau, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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In the opening minutes, Ani gamely deflects creepy customer questions.Lily Burana, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
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Only three episodes in, and Joe’s home-life pattern is already getting a bit redundant — pull up to the driveway with a melancholy mix of weariness and relief, get triggered into perceiving a phantom threat, draw a gun and almost shoot a family member.Andy Andersen, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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The narrative arc of Ghosts follows a gentleman mysteriously endowed with supernatural abilities that frighten the residents of a phantom town.Ime Ekpo, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Many of the ghostly tales stem from claims of tragic deaths like drownings, hangings, murders and freak accidents.Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 27 Oct. 2024
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This unsettling encounter has since become one of the many ghostly tales that add to the hotel’s haunting legacy.Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2024
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Dilettante listing brokers can also cost sellers with bad marketing, weird staging, and a lack of responsiveness.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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He is represented by no gallery, and works in a basement in Brooklyn, from which emerges the fruits of his weird obsessions.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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Dakota worked on the opposite side of the camera as an art production assistant on the 2009 supernatural thriller Lost Soul.Rachel Flynn, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Along with Ryder and Keaton, original star Catherine O’Hara also returns in the zany supernatural follow-up.Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Spectral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spectral. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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