wraith
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The original Beetlejuice, which starred Michael Keaton as an obnoxious wraith hired to help scare away a house's pretentious inhabitants, was released back in 1988.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2023
Tom Skerritt moves through “East of the Mountains” like a hobbled wraith.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2021
For years, Mr. Guzmán remained a wraith, invisible to authorities whose efforts to capture him proved futile.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2021
No such strategies can keep the Lyceum’s own pervasive Mina, the vengeful wraith of a murdered girl who haunts the theater, from infiltrating Bram’s thoughts.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2020
At the far end stood an altar, where the fiery wraith knelt in prayer, but Nico was more interested in the room itself.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
There’s not a single shot of a healthy human being in the movie, only wraiths filmed in sickly shades of pink, red and blue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
The protagonists are a couple of paranormal investigators, Red and Antea, who are trying to clear the tormented wraiths out of a haunted settlement.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2024
"All my energy has been well and truly sucked out of me like I've been kissed by a dementor," Paolo says referring to the soul-consuming wraiths in the Harry Potter stories.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2023
The tales boil down to the problem of balancing empathy with self-assertion—of both practicing kindness and expressing your own needs, and all while the people around you are behaving like wraiths or aliens.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018
Strange and wonderful I thought it that the designs of Mordor should be overthrown by such wraiths of fear and darkness.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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