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
Finally back home, she was … weird — an insomniac “wandering around the House at all hours like a soundless wraith… In the morning her children sometimes found her unconscious in unexpected places.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2020
For a brief second, every horror came back to her, and she truly was a wraith, a ghost taking flight from a body that had given her only pain.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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