specter

With many investors locked in place by the specter of big tax bills, fund companies can keep the fees on older ETFs high even as newer funds charge much less.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Yet the image of the male Viking warrior stubbornly lingers, drawing crowds while also haunting the galleries like a restless specter.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

But they raise the specter among the public of rogue computers acting on their own.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

As investors question the value of heavy artificial-intelligence spending, the specter of vendor financing once again hangs over the technology sector.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

“That’s why I’ve come here,” says the specter of my father.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

Donors respond to big claims and menacing specters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

“Ghost in the Machine: The Old Zoo” is just that, a site-specific interactive experience in which specters come to life via our mobile phones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 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

Purple light threw horrible, ghostly shadows on the cabin walls, as if the specters were escaping right out of the fountain.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan