specter
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Hackney wrote her book against the specter of another: “Hillbilly Elegy,” the 2016 bestselling memoir invoking Appalachian values by current Vice President JD Vance, who grew up outside that region in Middletown, Ohio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The specter of higher sales taxes could have made many state residents shop across state borders with lower sales taxes, Blouin said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
But they raise the specter among the public of rogue computers acting on their own.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Their involvement now raises the specter of another squeeze on energy markets already beleaguered by closures on the Strait of Hormuz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Donors respond to big claims and menacing specters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Not even Dickensian “A Christmas Carol” visitations by the specters of his father and an Indonesian business partner negotiating a project involving a sandstone reservoir with “significant extraction costs” diminish his concomitant guilt and chagrin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026
The mysteries around Annie’s murder and the frozen scientists link up so beautifully to the tensions within Ennis that the continued sprinkling of specters, flashbacks and various uncanny events has gotten distracting.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
The bus plowed through dust on the road winding through the Hanford Site, the horizon dotted with specters of reactors that had been dismantled or “cocooned.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
I had more money and success and “security” than in the days when specters seemed to go up and down them with me.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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