apparition
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While artists kept making him out to be Christ-like, they had more fun with the Mexican Marian apparition, beyond the traditional image of Her in prayer held up by a cherub.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
What’s left is a shared ghost, an apparition that connects the two women.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
“She is Our Lady of Guadalupe,” he tells me, a Marian apparition venerated as a national icon in Mexico.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
It's a trait Abigail explores on the opening track, Agnus Dei, which depicts one of her exes as a heavenly apparition, descending from the clouds onto London Bridge.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
“I was not really planning to. But I suppose we will have to go now, I will find out the next apparition date.”
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Boone is responsible for tremendous environmental harm but remains unrepentant, even as other apparitions materialize seeking to shame him into confessing his sins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
"A lot of the time we're just scared of these apparitions that we've created and these narratives that we've foisted upon other people."
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2024
Given that apparitions or other sightings are private experiences for individuals, the church does not require the faithful to accept the authenticity of such events.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2024
There has been no shortage of controversy surrounding reported apparitions or other supernatural phenomena.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
Like performances by apparitions, holoscripts play out faintly around the room.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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