phantom
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But the phantom inferno keeps breaking out, she said, and recently a long, funnel-shaped reflection in her window prompted another false warning: “Tornado sighted.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
Such phantom construction sites are caused by regulations that force public authorities to cut up large public projects into smaller lots and tender them separately.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
So is this an example of what is known as a phantom trend, where fear can end up exacerbating the real-world impact rather than mitigating it?
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026
They concluded that the chatbots appropriately identified problematic prompts, like a feeling of being watched by phantom people or feeling personally persecuted by the government, as a developing delusion only about half the time.
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026
She would not miss him as she did now, when the ache of his absence was her unremitting companion—like the phantom pain of an amputee.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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