ectoplasmic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Ghosts are the ultimate voyeurs — writers in their ectoplasmic state.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2022
He expires in the opening scene, apparently frightened into a heart attack by ectoplasmic spirits.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2021
Dench gives what may be her most surreal screen performance in the Vin Diesel sci-fi action thriller, playing Aereon, someone who can only be described as an ectoplasmic wise-woman.
From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2019
Literature — the top-shelf, award-winning stuff — is positively ectoplasmic these days, crawling with hauntings, haints and wraiths of every stripe and disposition.
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2018
This view is supported by the fact that certain coelomic forms, like Diplodina and others, which either lack muscle-fibrils or else show no ectoplasmic differentiation at all, are non-motile.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
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