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ghostlike

  • a word derived from ghost.

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At one point, a character simply disappears, the last known image of her being appropriately ghostlike.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Now much of the ghostlike alleyway is boarded up.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2023

From ghostlike particles, astrophysicists have pieced together a new map of the galaxy we live in.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023

Foxes pause ghostlike on the permafrost.With one quadrate eye, the vault reflects a frigid blue sea.

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2022

More riders emerged out of the dusk, ghostlike, until they had surrounded the camp.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo