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specter

noun as in ghost

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There is a specter haunting New York, and it isn’t capitalism.

And he raises an alarm, with clarion sharpness, about an authoritarian specter.

“It seems likely that any compromise reached to end the shutdown would not fully fund the government through the remainder of fiscal 2026, raising the specter of another shutdown in late December or January.”

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Now the Rapid Support Forces have sole control of Darfur in the west, raising the specter of further partition.

A lot of people want an excuse to support authoritarians, and they will believe in the specter of “leftist violence,” no matter how fake such a threat is.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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