ghosts
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Here, he realizes a triptych of vivid musical postcards recalling the American past: “The Saint-Gaudens in Boston Common,” a hazy conjuring of Civil War ghosts embodied by a memorial to Col.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Daisy’s husband Matt, for one, feels torn about the spoopiness that retailers foreground with their shelves of pastel pumpkins and rainbow-hued ghosts, and not just because of the aesthetics.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
His ambition was driven by ghosts and dysfunction, and he was well on his way to becoming one of those tormented “geniuses” who, in Carmy’s own words, just make everything worse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
"The city is just this minefield of ghosts," she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The tops of the chalkboards were lined with big paper witches, ghosts and skeletons.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
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