phantom
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“People borrow for years, and then get a 1099 for phantom gains that’s in the seven figures,” said Boersma.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
That means for every dollar a state recovers by hunting down a fraudulent home health agency or a phantom hospice, less than 35 cents return to the state treasury.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
"The callous way in which you walked away from the mayhem was sickening to watch. You blamed a phantom driver."
From BBC • Mar. 13, 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
But every time my eyes closed, I saw the phantom brakeman with hamburger meat for a face, swinging a ghostly lantern through tree branches like skeletons.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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