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Recent Examples of phantasmagoria
And a phantasmagoria of an inning began a descent that took the Tigers one step closer to absolute rock bottom.
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Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
Pan’s final pages are a kaleidoscope of phantasmagoria and philosophic bewilderment, a refusal of closure and clarity that is seemingly—and fittingly—designed to give readers a heavy dose of, to use the clinical term, derealization.
—Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
In the shadow of Coppola’s collective political fantasy Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 phantasmagoria Apocalypse Now put the concept of social disaster and political psychosis into the mainstream, from the Vietnam War to the Covidapocalypse.
—Armond White, National Review, 4 July 2025
The 90-minute opera is basically a phantasmagoria of how Schoenberg got here.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2025
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Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
Pan’s final pages are a kaleidoscope of phantasmagoria and philosophic bewilderment, a refusal of closure and clarity that is seemingly—and fittingly—designed to give readers a heavy dose of, to use the clinical term, derealization.
—Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
In the shadow of Coppola’s collective political fantasy Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 phantasmagoria Apocalypse Now put the concept of social disaster and political psychosis into the mainstream, from the Vietnam War to the Covidapocalypse.
—Armond White, National Review, 4 July 2025
The 90-minute opera is basically a phantasmagoria of how Schoenberg got here.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for phantasmagoria
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In this moment, dozens of them soar, like brilliant beads in a high-speed kaleidoscope amid the feeders placed before me and the other guests of the Mashpi Lodge, 70 miles northwest of Quito, the nation’s capital.—
Amy Drew Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 Mar. 2026
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Padma Lakshmi’s food memories are a kaleidoscope of colors, flavors, and textures.—
Alyse Whitney,
Saveur,
25 Mar. 2026
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Her colleagues at Yunnan University in China found the trove while looking for algal fossils in the region’s cliff faces—its rocks are famous for their ability to preserve ancient life.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
2 Apr. 2026
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But a study in Thursday’s journal Science said many of the fossils in this trove are remnants of more complex animals that lived three-dimensional lives, traveling up through the water and eating.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Best Amazon Deals Amazon is a treasure trove of comfy travel pants, with dozens of options on sale.—
Sophie Dodd,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Apr. 2026
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As much a summation of a career to date as a small-press treasure trove, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux’s Lucky Charms collects poems from over a dozen different publications by nearly as many presses.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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This assortment also includes a large selection of earrings, bracelets, anklets, rings, hair tie sets, keychains and more.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
28 Mar. 2026
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The first release of an eight-album series in which American composer and pianist Michael Harrison collaborates with a global assortment of artists combining Eastern and Western musical traditions.—
Arts Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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The spa The 57-foot-long underground pool is a treasure.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 Apr. 2026
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This Italian city has innumerable artistic treasures, these 25 paintings among them.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Phantasmagoria.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phantasmagoria. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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