phantasmagoric
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Its bright orange shade looked almost neon against the phantasmagoric roses bursting from the carpeting and wallpaper—every inch of this underworld custom-calibrated for a blindingly colorful ride.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Ali makes these sort of phantasmagoric horror films, in a way.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2024
When the phantasmagoric “Petrov’s Flu” opens on a crowded bus — a nightmare of jostling, babbling bodies — it seems obvious that there’s more troubling its hero than a typical seasonal malady.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2022
But here I was, trapped in the phantasmagoric clash between expectation and reality, standing next to a man in a handmade hazmat suit who held in his gloved hand a '90s camcorder.
From Salon • Jan. 6, 2022
An unvaried pall of vapor hung over the steaming ground, through which uncanny, phantasmagoric shapes peered at the struggling little band.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
Vocabulary lists containing phantasmagoric
"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
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