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apparition

[ap-uh-rish-uhn] / ˌæp əˈrɪʃ ən /


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“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

One of the finest stories here, “Late,” involves another apparition.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 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

Jessica Lange as the Black Swan and the apparition was this dream come true.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2024

They arise no more; we are dead and they stand remote on the horizon, they are a mysterious reflection, an apparition, that haunts us, that we fear and love without hope.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque




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