haunt
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A 2015 ticket promotion is coming back to haunt the Milwaukee Brewers just as the team heads to the World Series.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Addressing those who opposed the change in the law, she wrote: "Rest assured I will not come back to haunt you, I have better things to do."
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
“If I was a pious person, I could have concluded that I had committed murder, and that all those souls will haunt me forever,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The charges, thrown out on procedural grounds, have continued to haunt him.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
He remembered it as though it were yesterday and knew it would haunt him until his dying day.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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There is a number that haunts Herbert, and has loomed larger by the year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
The absence of his wife, Cora, haunts him so thoroughly he wonders if she might yet be alive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The moment Mingma G first saw his friends on the mountain still haunts him.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Writers who remained employed on this hollowed-out web were increasingly left wondering where all their favorite haunts had gone.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
And Lazlo had fixed on dark time, and he had wondered at the word haunts, but he had never thought to consider shadow.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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Carrara and his wife are Halloween devotees who frequent haunted houses and horror-themed bars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The Halloween season always comes with certain classic songs that turn any jukebox into a haunted house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
From the moment Ryua first walked into her rental apartment in Tokyo she believed it to be haunted.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
"He's haunted by the past," added Mirren, an evolution of character which adds "great color" to the story.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
And the question that really haunted him: “How were we serving American purposes in raining down punishment on the people in these houses?”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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Their faces are vivid, and haunting, whether bearing signs of greying hair and wrinkles, or the long eyelashes and chubby cheeks of a child.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
He remained there until his death, even as he continued to snipe at modernity, complain about his teeth and publish haunting tales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Scott said he was unsure Saskia would survive and described it as the "most haunting" experience of his life.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
A specter is haunting Europe, and plenty of other places too.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
They all remained silent for a few seconds, the sounds of students running and shouting outside the office haunting them.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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