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She is a leading expert in modeling potential habitable worlds and their detectable spectral fingerprint, which can be detected with the next generation of telescopes.
WHERE ALIENS COULD BE WATCHING US - ISSUE 106: INTELLIGENT LIFELISA KALTENEGGERSEPTEMBER 16, 2021NAUTILUSThe monsters—writhing spectral figures, literally faceless women—are nothing we haven’t seen before.
NETFLIX HORROR NOIR BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR TASTES TERRIBLEJUDY BERMANAUGUST 6, 2021TIMEIn the story, London is split between people with homes and those who live on the street, and again divided between human beings and a spectral race of aliens that has claimed the Square Mile as its own.
POLITICS AND THE PANDEMIC HAVE CHANGED HOW WE IMAGINE CITIESJOANNE MCNEILAPRIL 28, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWIn particular, the visible light shows spectral signatures of shock waves, which result when high-speed gas from a supernova slams into gas around it.
A GARGANTUAN SUPERNOVA REMNANT LOOKS 40 TIMES AS BIG AS THE FULL MOONKEN CROSWELLMARCH 17, 2021SCIENCE NEWSHis brother Niles, also a psychiatrist, is, for a time, married to Maris, a spectral caricature who’s never seen on the show.
IF YOUR SPIRITS NEED A BOOST, WATCH ‘FRASIER’KATHI WOLFEAUGUST 13, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEWhat a spectral and exaggerated shape all things take in her scared and over-excited gaze!
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUEven as I looked I saw the features of a human countenance—and yet not human either, so spectral was it, so unreal and strange.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUSOur fellows were being hard beset to hold on to what they had won; there, where the horizon stood out with spectral luminosity.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONSpectral shapes issue forth suddenly, and return as suddenly into the deep shade.
TOILERS OF THE SEAVICTOR HUGOMist floated upward from marsh and lake; and through it the spectral palms loomed, drooping fronds embroidered with dew.
IN SEARCH OF THE UNKNOWNROBERT W. CHAMBERSWORDS RELATED TO SPECTRAL
- abhorrent
- anemic
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- awful
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- assumed
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- fool's paradise
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- imaginative
- imagined
- legendary
- made-up
- mythological
- nonexistent
- notional
- phantasmal
- phantasmic
- quixotic
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- supposed
- supposititious
- theoretical
- trumped-up
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- visionary
- whimsical
- aerial
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- apparitional
- asomatous
- bodiless
- celestial
- disbodied
- discarnate
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- dreamlike
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- ethereal
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- heavenly
- impalpable
- imponderable
- incorporate
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- insensible
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- metaphysical
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- shadowy
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- spiritlike
- spiritual
- subjective
- supernatural
- unearthly
- unembodied
- unfleshly
- unsubstantial
- unworldly
- wraithlike
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