apparition
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"I was an apparition for most of my youth," she sings on Now, the autobiographical opening track of her 2023 album Good Thing We Stayed.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
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
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
He rubbed his eyes, but the fearful apparition would not go away.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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
That has been the case for the purported apparitions of Mary that turned Fatima, Portugal and Lourdes, France into enormously popular pilgrimage destinations.
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
“Phantasms specters ghouls visitants post-terrestrials apparitions, Lidewij. How can someone pursuing a postgraduate degree in American literature display such abominable English-language skills?”
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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