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ghostlike



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At one point, a character simply disappears, the last known image of her being appropriately ghostlike.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 15, 2026

Now much of the ghostlike alleyway is boarded up.

From BBC Oct. 25, 2023

I don’t know any other orchestra that could make Mahler’s massive, eccentric Seventh Symphony levitate like this, dancing ghostlike in midair for well over an hour.

From New York Times Nov. 13, 2022

Foxes pause ghostlike on the permafrost.With one quadrate eye, the vault reflects a frigid blue sea.

From Scientific American Jun. 14, 2022

It was the moon that allowed me to make out a sign hanging over the door, which bore an image of a white stag, ghostlike in the faint light.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi




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