phantom
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Within days, Pirro’s office also moved to drop misdemeanor charges against three more people accused of the same phantom vandalism.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
In Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s libretto, a phantom of Helen returns to Troy after the war while the real Helen is whisked away to safety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Likewise, viewers will not be startled when Marina eventually discovers painful secrets about her mom and dad that cause her to reconsider those phantom figures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
He’s still waking up to phantom alarms and discovering items he hid in cabinets and other places.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
I thought it might have been a phantom caravan riding behind us.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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
“Why do you keep coming?” he demanded of his phantoms.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
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
Two of the phantoms spun off toward his voice.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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