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- adjective Like a
phantom ;ghostly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It occurs to me that it might be a good idea to call Maggie … to call someone, at any rate—Izzy, or Peter, or even, his name rising phantomlike and unwelcome but rising, incredibly, nonetheless, Con…
Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010
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It occurs to me that it might be a good idea to call Maggie … to call someone, at any rate—Izzy, or Peter, or even, his name rising phantomlike and unwelcome but rising, incredibly, nonetheless, Con…
Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010
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Otto had slipped in earlier, unseen, phantomlike, working his director magic backstage.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Otto had slipped in earlier, unseen, phantomlike, working his director magic backstage.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Otto had slipped in earlier, unseen, phantomlike, working his director magic backstage.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Their lives as human beings, who lived and breathed on planet earth, within their very particular social, cultural, and political contexts, can become blurred and phantomlike.
The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006
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Their lives as human beings, who lived and breathed on planet earth, within their very particular social, cultural, and political contexts, can become blurred and phantomlike.
The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006
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Joey had named a fourth conspirator, but not one of the American-investigators ever located the phantomlike Jorge Lopez.
Every Breath You Take Ann Rule 2000
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As the days went by the nameless terror grew, dogging his footsteps, phantomlike by day, and haunting him at night, as he lay shaking in his bunk in the double-locked little office.
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The two figures, although as real as any of those who stood beside me, un-phantomlike as it is possible to be, had a distinct suggestion of -- projection.
The Moon Pool 1919
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