ectoplasmic
Americanadjective
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Color spills into the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art, radiating from a 3-D animation of sloshing, puffy liquid fizzing in ectoplasmic earth-tones and rancid pastels.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
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
He speculated that mediums discharged electromagnetic rays from their fingers and toes, or extruded invisible, semi-metallic psychic rods, or ectoplasmic threads like cobwebs.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2020
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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