haunt
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But this time, they came back to haunt him and he was arrested in September 2023.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
The newfound fortunes can haunt those who left SK Hynix and Samsung just before the memory-chip gold rush.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Spider-Man finds time to haunt MJ’s Instagram stories amidst all manner of chaos breaking out in the streets of New York and beyond?
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
Ms Mullan said she tried to save her family and that night would haunt her forever.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
To the old pitcher, they were like his own best knuckleball come back to haunt him.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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Also read: ‘Day-to-day dread’ haunts frustrated job seekers in era of low hiring.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Thus, for much of the season, Widow’s Bay reads as a non-Derry substitute for all the author’s Maine-area haunts.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
But that same day he saw something that still haunts him, a scene Kingsley relates with gravity and astonishment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
“It haunts me thinking about it,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
But Beans was in a hurry, trotting through town, checking out Farquar’s usual haunts, knocking on the doors of his friends, calling out his name.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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I still have no idea why we had to spend so much time with her in that haunted castle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The adults as much as the teenagers find themselves beset by doubts about their futures, haunted by the ghosts of their pasts, or agonizing over the thorny matter of God’s presence or absence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Japan is haunted by the memory of a massive 9.0-magnitude undersea quake in 2011, which triggered a tsunami that killed or left missing around 18,500 people and wrecked the Fukushima nuclear plant.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
In his retelling of Homer’s epic poem, Nolan imagines Odysseus as a man haunted by the sacking of Troy.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
For the rest of her life, pilot Yevgeniya Zhigulenko never forgot finding a small boy with a haunted, thin face and huge green eyes alone in a deserted village.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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This poses a haunting dilemma for those in the capital.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
During the case, haunting dashcam footage from the police patrol car was played showing the moment PC Harper confronted teenagers Henry Long, Bowers and Cole down a dark country lane.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
That impasse has raised a haunting question: How can someone vanish without a trace, especially when the world is watching?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
The director became emblematic of two of J-horror’s most haunting achievements, ‘Cure’ and ‘Pulse.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
She thought about this now, how haunting and yet how ordinary it had seemed.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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