apparitions

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And when these apparitions vanish, the text’s overriding theme—of life’s evanescence but also its beauty—does finally dovetail with the ghostly images created by the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

"A lot of the time we're just scared of these apparitions that we've created and these narratives that we've foisted upon other people."

From Salon • Aug. 21, 2024

There has been no shortage of controversy surrounding reported apparitions or other supernatural phenomena.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2024

To do so, he elicits help from fellow students, but their presentation is derailed by unlikely apparitions: a conquistador, a small child, Laura Linney.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024

They were nearing the lines now; men began rising out of the ground, ragged apparitions.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara