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apparition

[ap-uh-rish-uhn] / ˌæp əˈrɪʃ ən /


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What’s left is a shared ghost, an apparition that connects the two women.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

“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

One of the finest stories here, “Late,” involves another apparition.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2025

It is said that her parents took her to the shrine where she knelt before the place where the apparition was seen.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2025

A woman read the Big Chief statement and screamed, summoning her companions to draw aside from the ghastly apparition that had appeared at their art show.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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