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phantom

[fan-tuhm] / ˈfæn təm /


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A separate team at Cornell University found that researchers were using AI to compile citations, and that it was inventing bogus research, with around 147,000 pieces of phantom research cited last year.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The "phantom incinerators" scandal being the most blatant, critics say.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Months later, the same ad might still be up, but the job itself remains a phantom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

This so-called phantom tax can quickly add up, especially when inflation is high.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

An instant of self-indulgence—like a phantom that interposes itself between lovers to feel what it is to be alive.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

His hope is that we “preserve more lands for the unknown, for the phantoms, for the descendants” of the great native species.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

But the phantoms of the past remain, haunting our dreams and taunting us with the comfort of imagined reconciliation, until we wake up and it slips away.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026

In the course of this, work was also carried out on brain phantoms as a use case together with the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Zurich.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2024

Simpson’s trial coincided with the internet becoming an established phenomenon, which would decisively upend the already shrinking world of hard Gutenberg print and lean into the ephemeral, quicksilver phantoms of a digital web.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

The night was his opponent, Cora decided, the night and the phantoms he filled it with.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead


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