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Recent Examples of phantom
Adjective
That doesn't rule out that other pollsters are generating phantom swings by updating their weights, of course. G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2025 But that estimate sharply dropped once authorities subtracted the amount of phantom investment gains and interest that Madoff’s customers were duped into believing existed. Dan Mangan, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
On Friday, a team of researchers argued that the fish was a phantom all along. Jason Nark, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025 Listen to this article San Diego Symphony organ curator Bob Knight will never be mistaken for the phantom of the opera. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for phantom
Recent Examples of Synonyms for phantom
Adjective
  • Unlike the more familiar real numbers – positive and negative integers, fractions, square roots, cube roots and even numbers such as pi – complex numbers have an imaginary component.
    William Ross, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Getting put in imaginary handcuffs, a reference to Miami-Dade police’s detainment of the All-Pro receiver outside of Hard Rock Stadium prior to Sunday’s game.
    C. Isaiah Smalls II, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Some brands are diligent about paying fairly and on time, while others entirely ghost after the work is done or almost offensive offer rates.
    Kristen Bousquet, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Kinnell’s ensuing lines about his meal with the long-dead poet John Keats make a compelling case for conversations with ghosts.
    The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Putin cannot refuse a ceasefire, without losing the fictitious moral high ground.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The report did not mention any instances of dead or fictitious employees getting paid.
    Laura Doan, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In the writer-director’s latest horror flick, The Monkey, there is no malignant apparition, and death doesn’t lurk or stalk.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Zoe, as an apparition, is both the cause and relief to her pain.
    Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Smells like teen spirit As bloody and grim as Greek myths have always been, Santa Monica Studio established even darker trappings with 2005’s God of War.
    Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2025
  • But that resilience and spirit are certainly being tested, with the Heat’s last win coming nearly three weeks ago on March 3 in a home victory over the Washington Wizards.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Hamilton achieved most of these minimal brake moments while driving for Mercedes for 12 seasons, except for one out-of-reach trophy: turning seven championship titles into the mythical record-setting eight.
    Olivia Hicks, NPR, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The furniture collection was inspired by sea life, the mythical sea creatures of Ancient Greece and is composed of the Lorelei armchair and sofa, Ligea coffee tables, Neomeris carpet, Nereide sofa, Ploto low tables, Seidon sofa, Sibelia low tables and Teti pouf.
    Sofia Celeste, WWD, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In this mostly fictional version, the reclusive Omara has to decide whether or not to come back from retirement and record with her old colleagues from the fervent Cuban years, thus confronting those ghosts.
    Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • There is no Eleven, Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Hopper, Joyce, or the rest of the residents of the fictional Hawkins, Indiana.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025

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“Phantom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phantom. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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