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phantasmagoria

[fan-taz-muh-gawr-ee-uh, -gohr-] / fænˌtæz məˈgɔr i ə, -ˈgoʊr- /


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If they believe the phantasmagoria, it’s more likely you will, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Instead of what you’d expect — legions of them, rising up in gory phantasmagoria — I encountered accounts of very few, chiefly demure lady ghosts, swathed in white, blue, or pink, like Disney princesses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

For me, that phantasmagoria included years of nightmares that jolted me awake.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2023

Somewhere in the middle of the swirling phantasmagoria that is the play “On Set With Theda Bara,” indeed one will.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2023

Here the glacier spills abruptly over the edge of a high plateau, dropping seaward through a gap between two mountains in a phantasmagoria of shattered ice.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer




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