apparition
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“She is Our Lady of Guadalupe,” he tells me, a Marian apparition venerated as a national icon in Mexico.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Their missive even concluded with a shout-out to Our Lady of Guadalupe, the brown, pregnant apparition of the Virgin Mary who’s the patroness of the Americas for Catholics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025
It's a trait Abigail explores on the opening track, Agnus Dei, which depicts one of her exes as a heavenly apparition, descending from the clouds onto London Bridge.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
Least expensive: “A Polaroid of an apparition of the Virgin Mary in a glass structure in Clearwater, Fla. I got it on eBay for $7.”
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
And now here she was again, like an apparition, drinking red wine from a plastic cup and calling me by name.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
A discussion on the apparitions in “Macbeth” during sophomore year stands out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 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
She left everything in the hands of Nana and the other servants, and immersed herself in the world of apparitions and psychic experiments.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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