specter
noun
a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
specters
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pluralof specter.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Donors respond to big claims and menacing specters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Not even Dickensian “A Christmas Carol” visitations by the specters of his father and an Indonesian business partner negotiating a project involving a sandstone reservoir with “significant extraction costs” diminish his concomitant guilt and chagrin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026
Pouting “But I have Global Entry!” as she settles into the waiting room with her fellow specters is just the beginning of her afterlife antics.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2024
Early in “Pictures of Ghosts,” an exhilarating documentary about specters onscreen and off, the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho, pulls out a VHS tape.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
It was not enough; I saw the blank windows; and that was more terrible than the specters of memory with their piercing gaze; that absence; those sheets of glass that held no image but transmission.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
