specter
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The specter of higher sales taxes could have made many state residents shop across state borders with lower sales taxes, Blouin said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
But they raise the specter among the public of rogue computers acting on their own.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The specter of a prolonged crunch in energy supplies has faded, but the disruption could take months to unwind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Their involvement now raises the specter of another squeeze on energy markets already beleaguered by closures on the Strait of Hormuz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
The memory of Scythe Faraday’s unexpected intrusion into their home was still a dark specter haunting them.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
Donors respond to big claims and menacing specters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
In the latter, he appeared as the Fat Friar, one of the specters who haunt the halls of Hogwarts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
Early in “Pictures of Ghosts,” an exhilarating documentary about specters onscreen and off, the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho, pulls out a VHS tape.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 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
“Phantasms specters ghouls visitants post-terrestrials apparitions, Lidewij. How can someone pursuing a postgraduate degree in American literature display such abominable English-language skills?”
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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