phantom
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The "phantom incinerators" scandal being the most blatant, critics say.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
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
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
“People borrow for years, and then get a 1099 for phantom gains that’s in the seven figures,” said Boersma.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
And the maid in the attic stretched her phantom limbs and began to plot.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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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
In the first he was attacked by phantoms and a great wind, and he had some sort of debilitating weakness on one side of his body.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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