haunting
Example Sentences
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Just adjacent to the facility, still in operation today, is a haunting reminder of the past: the graves of more than 200 children who died in state custody.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
A concern haunting investors is that Apple appears to be easing into generative AI while rivals Google, Microsoft and OpenAI race ahead.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
The footage, which appears in Laura Poitras’ marvelous 2022 documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” is a haunting vision of lethal corporate greed.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026
Having directed the haunting “Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes,” James Jones, who worked here with co-director and producer Megumi Inman, seems to know his way around disasters both natural and, in the case of Fukushima, unnatural.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
The haunting notes didn’t resemble an organ, a piano, a fiddle, or any instrument of this world.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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