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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Alcantara was quite spiritual and often ministered at the church.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
7 Mar. 2025
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From Ben Affleck to Seth Rogen, Hollywood finds a ‘spiritual home’ at SXSW.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 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
Adjective
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That’s selling shares without borrowing them first, creating phantom shares that distort the market.—
Brandon Kochkodin,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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Ulrich reappeared after all this time as the phantom memory of Billy lurking in the mind of his daughter, Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera).—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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An effect inspired by the idea that metal is not a static material, the finish is created as craftspeople apply multiple layers of an oxidizing solution to the panels, resulting in an ethereal, painterly appearance.—
Rachel Gallaher,
Robb Report,
8 Mar. 2025
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But, these aren’t the bubble-hem basics of yesteryear—instead, these ethereal pieces remain grounded in strength.—
Cortne Bonilla,
Vogue,
7 Mar. 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 12 Mar. 2025.
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