phantom
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It is a status symbol, rite of passage and phantom limb wrapped into one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
So is this an example of what is known as a phantom trend, where fear can end up exacerbating the real-world impact rather than mitigating it?
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026
The phantom fleet of sanctioned vessels now numbers 1,300 ships, according to TankerTrackers.com, a ship-tracking website.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
They concluded that the chatbots appropriately identified problematic prompts, like a feeling of being watched by phantom people or feeling personally persecuted by the government, as a developing delusion only about half the time.
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026
Even to the Mere of Dead Faces some haggard phantom of green spring would come; but here neither spring nor summer would ever come again.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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