phantom
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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
He’s still waking up to phantom alarms and discovering items he hid in cabinets and other places.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
As hearing ability declines, communication between the ears and brain may also become distorted, contributing to the phantom sounds associated with tinnitus.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
But every time my eyes closed, I saw the phantom brakeman with hamburger meat for a face, swinging a ghostly lantern through tree branches like skeletons.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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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
When Kinsel recently began seeing visions of his late horse Yoyo running toward him, a medicine man held a ceremony to dispel the phantoms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2024
The line of the River grew nearer; and the Black Riders began to seem like phantoms of the woods now left far behind.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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