specter

Hackney wrote her book against the specter of another: “Hillbilly Elegy,” the 2016 bestselling memoir invoking Appalachian values by current Vice President JD Vance, who grew up outside that region in Middletown, Ohio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

As investors question the value of heavy artificial-intelligence spending, the specter of vendor financing once again hangs over the technology sector.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

The massive run-up also has raised the specter of a summertime pullback, given thinner trading volumes and a lack of corporate headlines expected over June and July.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

He was a regular on “Midday Live With Bill Boggs” and something of a specter for me.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

Then there was dysentery, the specter of which was raised with every loose stool.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

Donors respond to big claims and menacing specters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

But the fear cast by the specters of taxation and modernization that continually threaten Downton, including in “The Grand Finale,” are just as terrifying to its residents as any ax-wielding ghost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025

The mysteries around Annie’s murder and the frozen scientists link up so beautifully to the tensions within Ennis that the continued sprinkling of specters, flashbacks and various uncanny events has gotten distracting.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

The bus plowed through dust on the road winding through the Hanford Site, the horizon dotted with specters of reactors that had been dismantled or “cocooned.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

Purple light threw horrible, ghostly shadows on the cabin walls, as if the specters were escaping right out of the fountain.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan