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Adjective
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Ghost Tour: Take a night tour through the eerie streets of Bisbee, known for its haunted past and the ghostly tales of its mining days.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 July 2025 -
Their love is reignited in the most unlikely form, but not everyone welcomes her return—especially March’s family, still unsettled by a ghostly presence that appeared after a factory worker’s death forced their business to close.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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In fact, magical life has the potential to be even more radically incorporeal than our own.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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To the casual observer, the data industry can seem incorporeal, its products conjured out of weightless bits.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Oct. 2024
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Built in 1904, Blessed Virgin of Pompeii Catholic Church was the spiritual heart of Milwaukee's Italian community.—
Chris Foran,
jsonline.com,
31 July 2025
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Many locals consider the primates to be sacred guardians of the spiritual site, which dates back to around the 10th or 11th century, according to the WSJ.—
Sophia Compton,
FOXNews.com,
30 July 2025
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The team noticed that eureka moments seemed to be highly correlated with a steep EEG spectral slope—the steeper the slope, the more likely people were to get a breakthrough.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 July 2025
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In his music, the phrase takes on a spectral weight: five leaves left on a tree, trembling as summer slips into fall; five moments of clarity before sleep; five truths too delicate for morning.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
5 July 2025
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Instead, in too many formless episodes, Season 4 favors quiet solo scenes (Syd perfects a dish amid dramatic lighting and a haunting St. Vincent track, in a set piece that looks lovely but has nothing new to say) and earnest two-handers.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
26 June 2025
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But if Charity’s case history imposes some order and fixity on Eugene’s life, the rest of The Knockout Artist reads like an attempt to thwart this, to replace the tidiness of explanation with something more formless and free.—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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The system notices when safety sensors aren’t talking to each other right and fixes them before those phantom braking glitches.—
Raghu Para,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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For another, a one-and-done remedy for the condition’s most debilitating manifestations is, quite simply, a phantom goal.—
Caren Zucker,
The Atlantic,
6 July 2025
Adjective
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Together, their ethereal and ephemeral nature earns them the name fairy shrimp, according to experts.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
28 July 2025
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For the occasion, Fallon stepped out in a custom navy blue Zegna tuxedo, while Lyonne looked ethereal in a lavender McQueen gown.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
18 July 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 4 Aug. 2025.
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