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[fan-tuhm] / ˈfæn təm /


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Call it the phantom month: a measured number on top of the fraction and a modeled one underneath.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

A separate team at Cornell University found that researchers were using AI to compile citations, and that it was inventing bogus research, with around 147,000 pieces of phantom research cited last year.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

All Southern California waterways have become like phantom limbs.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

Thanks to 3D printing, the design of the phantoms is precisely known and the results of the analysis can be checked.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2024

I wondered why people thought so much about ghosts and phantoms in the past.

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 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

The watchers loomed like phantoms, silent and shadowed, their faces just blurs.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros


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