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the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
an eccentric who claimed to have photographed an apparition in her very own house
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Recent Examples of apparition
To have a follower recount a feat of superhuman strength, or even an apparition, is hard for a layperson to fathom but has the advantage of having happened in the past and out of the view of nonbelievers.
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Michelle Weber, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2024
But there can be more to a scary movie than just screaming apparitions or a gradually diminishing number of coeds with a bad sense of self-preservation.
—Keith Staskiewicz, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Some have seen a woman's figure lurking in the upstairs sewing room, while another apparition was spotted in the old carriage house.
—Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
More than five million visited the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe near the site of her apparition in the days ahead of her feast day in 2023, according to estimates shared by the Associated Press.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2024
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Michelle Weber, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2024
But there can be more to a scary movie than just screaming apparitions or a gradually diminishing number of coeds with a bad sense of self-preservation.
—Keith Staskiewicz, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Some have seen a woman's figure lurking in the upstairs sewing room, while another apparition was spotted in the old carriage house.
—Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
More than five million visited the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe near the site of her apparition in the days ahead of her feast day in 2023, according to estimates shared by the Associated Press.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apparition
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Kelly Clarkson isn’t visiting any ghosts of Christmas past this holiday season.Latoya Gayle, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
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This lounge has custom drinks with the best names (my favorite was Happily Never After), and every corner has been themed to the classic Disney attraction, from the wallpaper with eyes to the hitchhiking ghosts in the mirror.Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2024
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Youthful high spirits become depressing under such circumstances.Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2024
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But this close brush with death symbolized both Trump's amazing comeback from the debacle of the 2020 election and its aftermath and the fighting spirit that led to an Electoral College and popular vote victory in November 2024.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
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The Wizard of Oz Effect In the movie The Wizard of Oz, there’s a scene where the protagonist, Dorothy, and her band of misfits are seeking the great and powerful Oz, an amorphous wizard who appears as a phantom atop an explosion of smoke.Steve Tengler, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Ghosts has slowly been expanding its world over four seasons to introduce its stalwart spirits to a whole host of new phantoms.Katie Campione, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Apparition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apparition. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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