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specter

noun as in ghost

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Worst by far, for the journeyman performer, is the looming specter of AI-generated narration.

Still, the specter of a bear attack, especially by a grizzly, is enough to make most hikers’ blood run cold.

But the fear cast by the specters of taxation and modernization that continually threaten Downton, including in “The Grand Finale,” are just as terrifying to its residents as any ax-wielding ghost.

The painful and hard specter of more violence to come has less to do with far-right or far-left than extreme fringe in either political direction.

The top U.S. diplomat held his first meeting with President Claudia Sheinbaum a day after the dramatic Pentagon strike raised the specter of a unilateral U.S. military attack on suspected cartel targets in Mexico.

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

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