as in disembodied
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraithlike
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
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If reason teaches that God is incorporeal, this means that God has no body; God does not physically see, nor do people see God.—
Randy L. Friedman,
The Conversation,
16 Feb. 2024
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The digital files are incorporeal.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
9 June 2021
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With Marxism tainted by its aggressive materialism, and mere democratic socialism so mere, anarchism could be imagined as a series of defiant spiritual acts.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Cambodia’s Art Come Home: Foreign institutions and collectors are returning artifacts with deep spiritual meaning.—
Hannah Beech,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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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
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The Right was formless, fractured, a collection of irritable mental gestures -- and then William F. Buckley Jr. founded this journal, bringing the various respectable strands of conservatism together and discarding the others.—
Ramesh Ponnuru,
National Review,
19 Dec. 2024
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That doubtlessly makes Skeleton Crew feel more formless than would be acceptable if the series had been trimmed down to a movie.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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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
Adjective
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Take Wicked star Cynthia Erivo, who went ethereal in her white macramé cotton lace bustier gown (with a breastplate that defied gravity—get it?).—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
16 Feb. 2025
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Picture the lightest dusting of cocoa powder, but not the sweet, gourmand chocolate that dominates many modern fragrances, but something more refined and ethereal.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
12 Feb. 2025
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Though its name suggests a nootropics concern or a purveyor of networked exercise equipment, Superhuman’s unbodied offering is productivity software for the inbox.—
Anna Wiener,
The New Yorker,
17 July 2019
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Deleuze and Guattari, in Anti-Oedipus, see in it the model of a new kind of reasoning: schizoid, unbodied, and diffuse.—
Sam Kriss,
The Atlantic,
13 Oct. 2017
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“Wraithlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wraithlike. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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