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Another local resident said the building had been "haunting us every day".

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2025

But among her British peers, Jackson was the first to emerge as the female equivalent of a discomfiting archetype that had been haunting her country’s imagination since the 1950s, the Angry Young Man.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2023

That, at heart, was the question that had been haunting me.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2013

Agassi said in the book that when he got to Paris in 1999 the desire to win the French Open had been haunting him for 10 years.

From Newsweek • Jan. 20, 2011

Sierra let herself get swept up in it, let go of the fear and sadness that had been haunting her limbs since their visit to the printing press, and danced.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older