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
In Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s libretto, a phantom of Helen returns to Troy after the war while the real Helen is whisked away to safety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
My guilt remains, like pain in a phantom limb, but the sofa holds us all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
He’d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs and arms used to be.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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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
The phantoms developed can be used to improve dMRI, which can benefit the planning of operations and research into neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis.
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
Thus, phantoms are in season . . . although not all ghost stories are alike.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2023
Across his mind marched the great phantoms, and they marched off the earth and they were gone.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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