How to Use specter in a Sentence
specter
noun
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Droughts in the mid-1960s raised the specter of famine.
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Sadanand Dhume,
WSJ,
23 Dec. 2021
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This wasn’t the first time Wallace brought up the specter of 9/11.
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Joe Silverstein,
Fox News,
19 July 2022
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Throughout it all, the specter of Covid-19 still looms over the vote.
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Caitlin Hu,
CNN,
7 Nov. 2021
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The specter of Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen loomed large.
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Los Angeles Times,
11 July 2022
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This does raise the specter of their cutting you off from the kids.
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Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
12 Oct. 2022
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The specter of world war is concerning, but the draft isn't.
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Heather Ainsworth For Cnn,
CNN,
19 Mar. 2022
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The specter of Keynes, at this point in the story, is hiding in a closet.
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Maggie Lange,
Washington Post,
19 Jan. 2023
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Chief among them, for the athletes and the future of the Games, is the specter of systemic doping.
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Marisa Guthrie,
WWD,
14 June 2024
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The specter of everything that happens in the last movie is there.
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Carly Thomas,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Sep. 2024
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Still, the specter of partisan bias shadowed the project.
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Jennifer Schuessler,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2023
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But a little more than a week into the new year, the specter of scandal reemerged.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2024
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But even decades later, the specter of HIV never leaves him.
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Joseph Osmundson,
The Atlantic,
8 June 2022
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The bust has hung like a specter over Chimayó ever since.
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Alicia Inez Guzmán,
Rolling Stone,
30 Nov. 2021
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The specter of the man who was the architect of the attacks, the late Abdelhamid Abaaoud, loomed large in the first days of the trial.
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BostonGlobe.com,
15 Sep. 2021
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In fact, the specter of Nazism has always haunted the margins of this story.
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Time,
2 Nov. 2022
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The specter of Sean Payton is no more now that he’s headed to Denver.
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Dallas News,
31 Jan. 2023
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The specter of a debt default is no longer unthinkable.
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Jeff Sommer,
New York Times,
11 Aug. 2023
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And now, the specter of imminent full-fledged pop stardom.
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Jim Greer,
SPIN,
4 Aug. 2024
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With the specter of war crimes charges now hanging over the Israel-Hamas war, so too are questions.
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Taylor Luck,
The Christian Science Monitor,
22 May 2024
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So in the words of every rapper faced with the ubiquitous specter of haters: Stay mad.
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Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
18 Nov. 2024
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But even the events within the city of Los Angeles are spread out, with the specter of clogged downtown streets.
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Michael Goldstein,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
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For Berry, the specter of running into Beckham down the road didn’t seem to be a top concern.
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Dan Labbe,
cleveland,
5 Nov. 2021
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Even for the many who voted for him, the specter of this coalition has served as a rude awakening.
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Time,
10 Jan. 2023
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Cities frequently have used the specter of rising crime rates as reason to pass the rules.
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Liam Dillonstaff Writer,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2023
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In the space of just a few months, the specter of artificial intelligence has come to haunt the world.
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Diane Coyle,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Aug. 2023
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The specter of a wider conflict hangs over debates about how far the West should go in supporting Ukraine.
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Washington Post,
7 Mar. 2022
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That specter alone could provoke the bond vigilante crowd.
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William Pesek,
Forbes,
16 Feb. 2024
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On the day of our second interview, the specter of a writers strike hovers.
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Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
9 May 2023
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David survives and is cursed to become the new beast while Jack is murdered and appears as a specter to David as a decaying corpse.
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Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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The specter of hostage-taking is not new in Israel, although it has mostly been confined to soldiers.
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Dina Kraft,
The Christian Science Monitor,
22 Jan. 2025
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