ghost

Example Sentences

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In May, she returned to the U.S., and still, she was “ghosted” by hundreds of employers.

From Los Angeles Times

My mother ghosted me after my father died.

From MarketWatch

"We are ghosts on the night shift," says Leandro Cristovao from Angola, who has worked the graveyard shift at a south London market for seven years.

From Barron's

The ghost of Walter Lippmann leaning into the wireless to hear FDR . . . stole into me.

From The Wall Street Journal

Nor are there any current moves in the UK to tackle either ghost jobs or recruitment ghosting.

From BBC