ghost

Example Sentences

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Being displaced means "you walk alongside, all your life, a kind of ghost self. There's always a sense of 'who would I have been if we'd stayed?'"

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Could we end up in a situation where, even if FEMA’s not gone, it’s like a ghost ship?

From Slate • May 21, 2026

Elon Musk’s conglomerate of rocket launches, satellite communications, AI and the ghost of Twitter is hoping to get a valuation north of $1.5 trillion.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

To test the system, the researchers used the photon pairs for ghost imaging, a quantum imaging technique in which images are reconstructed using correlated photons instead of direct spatial detection.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

A haint is what the old-timers called a ghost.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney