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apparition

[ap-uh-rish-uhn] / ˌæp əˈrɪʃ ən /


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“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

It's a trait Abigail explores on the opening track, Agnus Dei, which depicts one of her exes as a heavenly apparition, descending from the clouds onto London Bridge.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

But Navarro is lured away by the apparition of her dead sister, floating by in the murky water beneath them.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2024

His father’s pale bare head bobbed above the crowds of laborers, an apparition of evil with his red dragon tattoos running up his arms and curling about his neck.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi




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