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or spectre
Examples of specter in a Sentence
feeling so terrified that every shadow became a specter
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Climate change, Brandt insists, is not some distant specter but a crisis unfolding now, disproportionately affecting those least responsible for it.
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Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
That’s still the specter that lingers in everyone’s mind on this issue.
—Meg Linehan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
The White House showed no signs Monday of backing off its implementation of sweeping tariffs on dozens of other nations, even as its approach rattled financial markets and raised the specter of an economic slowdown.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 7 Apr. 2025
The immediate cutoff of customers has created a ripple effect, where the financial uncertainty brought on by the specter of layoffs causes possible customers to tighten their purse strings.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Mar. 2025
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Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
That’s still the specter that lingers in everyone’s mind on this issue.
—Meg Linehan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
The White House showed no signs Monday of backing off its implementation of sweeping tariffs on dozens of other nations, even as its approach rattled financial markets and raised the specter of an economic slowdown.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 7 Apr. 2025
The immediate cutoff of customers has created a ripple effect, where the financial uncertainty brought on by the specter of layoffs causes possible customers to tighten their purse strings.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Specter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/specter. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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