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apparition

[ap-uh-rish-uhn] / ˌæp əˈrɪʃ ən /


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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

Their missive even concluded with a shout-out to Our Lady of Guadalupe, the brown, pregnant apparition of the Virgin Mary who’s the patroness of the Americas for Catholics.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2025

It is said that her parents took her to the shrine where she knelt before the place where the apparition was seen.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2025

They drove away leaving that name, Castor, hanging in the air like some horrible apparition, like the key to a lock, like the solution to an unsolved crime.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor




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