phantasm

Example Sentences

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This dependency on fighting imaginary phantasms — which are responsible for eroding our "values" and "culture" by making America browner, less Christian, more constitutionally equal and ever less heterosexual — is what unites GOP base voters.

From Salon

And before that, I was reading accounts of specters and phantasms at a home built in the early 1800s.

From Seattle Times

Like most of the fears that animate the right, that's a phantasm, propped up to keep their adrenaline coursing and their rational faculties shut down.

From Salon

Martin Riker’s novel “The Guest Lecture” begins when a faltering academic conjures up an imaginary phantasm of the early-20th-century economist John Maynard Keynes.

From Washington Post

In the past, these phantasms were usually cause for amusement or bafflement more than concern.

From Seattle Times