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This so-called phantom tax can quickly add up, especially when inflation is high.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

Within days, Pirro’s office also moved to drop misdemeanor charges against three more people accused of the same phantom vandalism.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

My guilt remains, like pain in a phantom limb, but the sofa holds us all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

As hearing ability declines, communication between the ears and brain may also become distorted, contributing to the phantom sounds associated with tinnitus.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026

Suddenly, seven million children-—children who had existed only as phantom exemptions on the previous year’s 1040 forms—vanished, representing about one in ten of all dependent children in the United States.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

His hope is that we “preserve more lands for the unknown, for the phantoms, for the descendants” of the great native species.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

But the phantoms of the past remain, haunting our dreams and taunting us with the comfort of imagined reconciliation, until we wake up and it slips away.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026

Thanks to 3D printing, the design of the phantoms is precisely known and the results of the analysis can be checked.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2024

Simpson’s trial coincided with the internet becoming an established phenomenon, which would decisively upend the already shrinking world of hard Gutenberg print and lean into the ephemeral, quicksilver phantoms of a digital web.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

He looked up at the smoke-streaked sky and saw strange phantoms, dark riding shapes, and faces out of the past.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien