specter in English

noun
1
a ghost.
Only when memory is, like the narrator's in Kesey's novel, sufficiently dim, do the dead appear as specters and ghosts.

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1. The specter of mass starvation loomed.

2. The specter of war loomed ahead.

3. The specter of unemployment haunted the land.

4. Some are raising the specter of eugenics.

5. The specter of unemployment hunted the country.

6. A specter rose before his fevered mind.

7. THE specter of famine hovers over the entire world!

8. 10 Some are raising the specter of eugenics.

9. The specter of evil haunts the nightly newscast.

10. The specter of the murdered man haunted the house.

11. He was now an invisible man, a lethal specter.

12. How does a specter go about making his confession?

13. Gene - based anthropology also struggles with the specter of racism.

14. Arlen Specter until he dropped out of the Republican race.

15. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, said he was troubled by the money route.

16. The terrible specter of civil war hung over the country once again.

17. The news of more cuts has raised the specter of redundancies once again.

18. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of a subcommittee on labor, health and education.

19. The pocket of sunshine's energy chased away the specter of drought that stalked farmland.

20. After the Republican revolution of 19 a great deal depended on Specter and Gilman.

21. Arlen Specter, who has hinted at future Borkings of pro-life Supreme Court nominees, is not

22. The specter of intervention by Serbia’s powerful ally Russia, too, was most threatening to Austria-Hungary.

23. Nunn, who is retiring at the end of the year, and Specter did not explain their votes.

24. For it conjures up the Specter of one human being exacting his will on another.

25. A Brocken specter, which is also called "anticorona, glory, Brocken bow, or mountain specter," is an illusion that can occur when someone stands on a hill that is partially covered in mist, in a …

26. The specter, north and south, of the black face, real and corporeal, owing nothing to burnt cork.

27. Failure in Chechnya raises the specter that other independent-minded regions could become problems once again.

28. 23 For it conjures up the Specter of one human being exacting his will on another.

29. The specter of self-destruction can be ended only with the abrogation of the U. S.

30. The specter that has haunted the economist has been the monopoly seeking extortionate gains at the public expense.

31. Interestingly, the initiative has now gathered greater traction as the specter of global terrorism appears more threatening.

32. For the specter of world revolution still haunts world capitalism, and the Yankee bomb is its ultimate defense.

33. To dominate by position; tower over: "Hitler's ghost, the specter that Bestrides mid-twentieth-century history" (Economist)

34. 14 Opponents painted a more apocalyptic picture, warning of foreign landowners and even invoking the specter of civil war.

35. Nadeem Bezar, a partner at Kline & Specter, is an accomplished & skilled attorney who has won scores of

36. Potentially problematic was the specter of defense witnesses placing John Doe No. 2 in the conspiracy and confusing jurors.

37. I wish you could have seen the faces of the jury as the awful specter of the future unfolded before them.

38. Thus, gone for all time will be the awful specter of children with spindly arms and legs and with bellies swollen from hunger.

39. He wrote three academic books presenting his findings, the last being The Authoritarian Specter published by Harvard University Press in 1996.

40. As a result, the specter of shareholder opportunism vis-a-vis creditors becomes an increasingly significant agency cost for firms approaching insolvency.

41. In Sin, which Anatomizes Michelangelo Buonarroti’s creative struggle during the Renaissance, we see the specter of political pressure on the artistic spirit

42. In Sin, which Anatomizes Michelangelo Buonarroti’s creative struggle during the Renaissance, we see the specter of political pressure on the artistic spirit

43. It also contains a coupon that readers can send to Specter to show their support for increased funding for spinal cord research.

44. Experts contend that “the specter of litigation is sapping productivity, creativity and human trust, creating ‘a fear to act’ in many segments of society.”

45. Responding to this unsettling specter, China has been fostering significant wage increases in its controlled economy in order to fend off any rise in citizen agitation.

46. How the Specter of Communism is Ruling Our World (3 Volume Set) by the Editorial Board of "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party" Jan 1, 2020

47. I worked in the basement of a Caltech campus building that had been periodically haunted by the specter of the upper half of a roofer who had fallen from the six story roof twenty years earlier.

48. Interestingly, his Flora/Specter modes are similar to Luminous' Light/DArk system (but acts like Buccaneer's Energy Charge).; Ark is the tenth class who is not a human, succeeding Mercedes, the Demon, Kaiser, Angelic Buster, Xenon, Zero, Beast Tamer, Cadena, and Illium.

49. While Adumbrating its recurrence as partaking of the effort to preserve the poignant memories of a totalitarian past, the authors do not fail to alert to the impending petrification of Stalin's specter that has, in the course of decades, haunted Russian fiction and defined its mono-logism.

50. Apparition: 1 n a ghostly appearing figure “we were unprepared for the Apparition that confronted us” Synonyms: fantasm , phantasm , phantasma , phantom , specter , spectre Types: Flying Dutchman the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day Type of: disembodied spirit ,