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haunt

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






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That’s the song that flooded my house when my children were teenagers, and it will likely haunt them all their lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

But these same strange, delicate, leggy arthropods also haunt our nightmares.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

"A video that I posted a year ago has come back to haunt me, essentially," Chatfield said on Tuesday, shortly after it was confirmed that Holiday had returned home to Australia.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

It's one of the most famous photographs capturing the aftermath of the Aberfan disaster, but its success has come to haunt the man who took it.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

Many ghosts in my family already haunt us, friend, so it helps me to know that you’re here.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson




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