phantom
noun
an apparition or specter.
phantoms
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pluralof phantom.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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His hope is that we “preserve more lands for the unknown, for the phantoms, for the descendants” of the great native species.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
“Why do you keep coming?” he demanded of his phantoms.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
In the course of this, work was also carried out on brain phantoms as a use case together with the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Zurich.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2024
Simpson’s trial coincided with the internet becoming an established phenomenon, which would decisively upend the already shrinking world of hard Gutenberg print and lean into the ephemeral, quicksilver phantoms of a digital web.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
What faint light they shed fell gloomily upon some roof corner or a waving strand of vine, transforming familiar daytime shapes to eerily unfamiliar phantoms.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
