specter
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The specter of higher sales taxes could have made many state residents shop across state borders with lower sales taxes, Blouin said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
But they raise the specter among the public of rogue computers acting on their own.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Civil libertarians say the use of this tracking data raises the specter of mass surveillance on innocent people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The worsening economics of television have put pressure on networks to reconsider the value of late-night shows, although the specter of President Trump also hangs over Colbert’s departure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
In the 1850s, however, William Thomson, a British physicist, noticed something odd about Charles’ law: the specter of zero.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Donors respond to big claims and menacing specters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Every song she sings in the course of three seasons is a summit gained — only to find the path forward blocked by fallen rocks or frightening specters of her own making.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2024
Early in “Pictures of Ghosts,” an exhilarating documentary about specters onscreen and off, the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho, pulls out a VHS tape.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
The bus plowed through dust on the road winding through the Hanford Site, the horizon dotted with specters of reactors that had been dismantled or “cocooned.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
I had more money and success and “security” than in the days when specters seemed to go up and down them with me.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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