haunted

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But history is the unseen guest at every table; the country remains haunted by the memory of the hyperinflation that devastated the economy in the 1920s and helped propel the Nazis to power.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Meanwhile, the war is producing the kind of backlash that has haunted every modern American intervention.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

Some of them are haunted by their pasts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Across 3,000 square feet, it offers four interactive room choices where groups get to decide between escaping different areas of the haunted house.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

For the rest of her life, pilot Yevgeniya Zhigulenko never forgot finding a small boy with a haunted, thin face and huge green eyes alone in a deserted village.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein