phantom
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Months later, the same ad might still be up, but the job itself remains a phantom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
This so-called phantom tax can quickly add up, especially when inflation is high.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 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
My guilt remains, like pain in a phantom limb, but the sofa holds us all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Through the narrative, he’d made a kind of literary peace with his phantom father.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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
“Why do you keep coming?” he demanded of his phantoms.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
The brain phantoms thus depict areas in the brain that generate particularly complex signals and are therefore difficult to analyse, such as intersecting nerve pathways.
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
Bennie yelled at the phantoms, stepping out into the center of the room with a plastic sheet wound up like a whip.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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