spectral
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Long before Urschel became an assistant professor at MIT studying matrices, spectral graph theory and other subjects that sound like gibberish to just about everybody, he was an overachieving kid attending Penn State.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Researchers found a significant negative relationship between redshift and spectral age.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
But poets in Europe could sense Homer’s spectral presence even when they had no direct access to him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
But once she’s confronted by spectral figures in her nightmares, she starts to wonder if something supernatural is going on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The riflemen and the other living allies were bemused: they could make nothing of this ghostly, spectral combat.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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