haunt
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Although he understood Opel's need to remain competitive globally, he worried that a strategy of cutting German engineering expertise could eventually "come back to haunt them in the long run".
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Spider-Man finds time to haunt MJ’s Instagram stories amidst all manner of chaos breaking out in the streets of New York and beyond?
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
It started barely a week after the 3-1 loss to Celtic that will - if those who can remember 1986 can tell you - haunt for years to come.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Shaky defense, however, came back to haunt the Padres the next inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
They had not met up with her, undoubtedly, thought Harry, because she and Dean were cozily closeted in Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop, that haunt of happy couples.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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So when Flowers moved back home and started revisiting his childhood haunts, his passion for country was rekindled.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Many of the city's old storied haunts are closed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Also read: ‘Day-to-day dread’ haunts frustrated job seekers in era of low hiring.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
But Dwight, now dead, haunts Julia right back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Eighty-two years later, the sound of her crying still haunts me.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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Croasmun has driven the old route myriad times, and “I’m not going to say it’s completely haunted, but in a couple of spots you just feel, oh jeez … “
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Police officers investigating the disappearance of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh in west London say they remain "haunted" by the case, four decades after she went missing.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Japan is haunted by the memory of a massive 9.0-magnitude undersea quake in 2011, which triggered a tsunami that killed or left missing around 18,500 people and wrecked the Fukushima nuclear plant.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
But for a sport haunted by its own history, the antidoping show of force was designed to breed confidence not doubt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The moon had quadrupled its value by the time we reached the outer edge of the haunted desert and dangled in front of us like a shiny coin.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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This poses a haunting dilemma for those in the capital.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
"The earthquake is haunting me," Deivi Delfín says.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
A romantic Hitchcock using lyrical camera movements in an atmospheric, haunting adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Cosmo itched so much from allergies that he constantly scratched himself raw and unleashed a howl when we were gone for too long, so loud and haunting that my neighbor thought it was a siren.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
We couldn't see them from outside the prison, but their voices rang out just the same—the voices were haunting because they were disembodied, but they were full of excitement and hopefulness.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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