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Recent Examples of wraithlike
The flakes were slow and voluptuous, and already the wraithlike branches outside the window were fattening with white.
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Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
But no matter how strong Carmen becomes, her destiny — embodied by a wraithlike old woman who turns up whenever the orchestra plays Bizet’s 10-note fate motif — is predetermined.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026
Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
But no matter how strong Carmen becomes, her destiny — embodied by a wraithlike old woman who turns up whenever the orchestra plays Bizet’s 10-note fate motif — is predetermined.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraithlike
Adjective
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In both Wilde’s play and Strauss’s opera, Salome is obsessed with Jokanaan (John the Baptist), who is being held as a political prisoner in a cistern, his disembodied voice floating around the stage.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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Adults would look around, trying to spy the location of the body behind the disembodied voice.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 May 2026
Adjective
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Here, the ghostly remnants of a grain mill; there, the campus of a global food company.—
Dan Barry,
New York Times,
12 May 2026
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Bryce Dallas Howard is getting ghostly.—
Aaron Couch,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The important things are often bodiless.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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Her testimony led to the U.K.’s first bodiless murder conviction.—
Udita Jhunjhunwala,
Variety,
22 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Followers of the Abrahamic religions are supposed to treat God as immaterial and incorporeal, yet these early Yahweh worshippers imagined him as fully embodied.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2026
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Positioned as a large-scale genre event, the series updates the legendary SFX property with a contemporary political and social edge, with Shun Oguri leading the cast as a detective hunting a seemingly incorporeal killer.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Diners have toasted to him ever since, trading stories of feeling ghostlike brushes along their legs during Lowcountry meals.—
Chelsea Brasted,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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But there’s ephemera in the spiritual sense of craft—the spare remarks and objects that constitute the overflow cut for cleaner syntax or word count.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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Take time to renew your spiritual or religious beliefs.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
19 May 2026
Adjective
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Brown collected speech examples of 49 Canadians from online sources and analyzed the samples using the telltale acoustic markers of vocal fry, such as low and/or irregular pitch, spectral tilt (differences in amplitude between the first and second harmonics), and harmonics-to-noise ratios.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
14 May 2026
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Oklou shares the same melodic grace in her wandering arpeggios, and the spectral balearic timewarp of Torus’ Summer of Love samples Stockholm’s own Eric Prydz.—
Nathan Evans,
Pitchfork,
12 May 2026
Adjective
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In contrast to the article’s portrait of a formless contest, recent polling portrays a race that is becoming more structured.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
17 May 2026
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These new formations are much more likely to occur than for things to turn into a formless goop.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2026
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“Wraithlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wraithlike. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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