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haunt

[hawnt, hahnt, hant] / hɔnt, hɑnt, hænt /






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Stocks have withstood surging yields before—though their especially poor performance just four years ago continues to haunt investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

For the Chargers, that singsong, taunting “Raiii-derrrs” chant will surely haunt their dreams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

Philosophers call this tendency “hauntology”: Political ideas and movements may die, but they continue to haunt our present.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

As Carragher said: "They have to sort the goalkeeping issue out because it's going to come back and haunt them again this season as it did tonight."

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

The sound of breaking and Uhmma’s deep wail haunt the room.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na

The long shadow of their war haunts all the expatriates of “The Sun Also Rises.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The moment Mingma G first saw his friends on the mountain still haunts him.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Writers who remained employed on this hollowed-out web were increasingly left wondering where all their favorite haunts had gone.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

Many of the city's old storied haunts are closed.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Word had it that the exchange between Brekker and Van Eck had gone sour and that Van Eck had eyes on the Slat and the rest of Kaz Brekker’s haunts.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

That unleashed the kind of “bomb” and “flop” headlines that haven’t haunted a Cruise release since “The Mummy” in 2017.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

That’s what we did in our recent Zoom conversation about the mythic creator, writer and actor who has haunted us for most of a century by changing TV for the better.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

The exhibition is organized into six themed “chambers” devoted to Gothic horror, psychological horror, science, slashers, religion and ghosts, with settings ranging from a shadowy crypt to a killer’s house and a haunted living room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Antonelli's first season in F1 was haunted by an incident that happened the first time he drove on a grand prix weekend.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

I’d ask Micah to go trick-or-treating, but he always helps his family host a giant haunted house.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Walking through the forest, the scale of what happened is almost haunting.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Yet the image of the male Viking warrior stubbornly lingers, drawing crowds while also haunting the galleries like a restless specter.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Best of all, the shocker revelation explaining the shivery occurrences is haunting and persuasive—within the wide parameters of the genre, of course.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

With a beveled chord progression and a haunting repetition of the name, it became perhaps her most requested song, and was covered by many, including the White Stripes, Candi Staton, Reba McEntire and Olivia Newton-John.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

I guess it’s either that or haunting the aisles of Publix, warning the baby moms how fast it all flies by.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli




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