How to Use specter in a Sentence

specter

noun
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  • The specter of Keynes, at this point in the story, is hiding in a closet.
    — Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Still, the specter of partisan bias shadowed the project.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • But a little more than a week into the new year, the specter of scandal reemerged.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The specter of Sean Payton is no more now that he’s headed to Denver.
    — Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The specter of a debt default is no longer unthinkable.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Even for the many who voted for him, the specter of this coalition has served as a rude awakening.
    — Time, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Cities frequently have used the specter of rising crime rates as reason to pass the rules.
    — Liam Dillonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2023
  • In the space of just a few months, the specter of artificial intelligence has come to haunt the world.
    — Diane Coyle, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • That specter alone could provoke the bond vigilante crowd.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • On the day of our second interview, the specter of a writers strike hovers.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 9 May 2023
  • Even then, the specter of monetary worries still lingers.
    — Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The specter of water short- age and energy costs would no longer be daunting.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2023
  • But the specter of a U.S. default could up end the entire economy if Congress does not act in time.
    — ABC News, 7 May 2023
  • For some older Portuguese, too, the specter of the hard right’s revival has been unsettling.
    — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • At the time of his death, at the age of 50, Jackson was like a phantom, a bewildering specter of his former self.
    — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • As street life turned treacherous, the specter of the hustler, and whether to become one, cast a growing shadow.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2023
  • There are at least two giant skeletons with glowing eyes and a gyrating specter on the wall.
    — Lizzy Rosenberg, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • All of these storylines will play out over the next 3-4 weeks for the Guardians as the specter of Terry Francona’s retirement looms.
    — Joe Noga, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But she is soon interrupted by the looming specter of death.
    — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Whether with a gun, a mastermind or a monster, most thrillers thrill by invoking the specter of death: Who’s going to die and how?
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The specter of strikes has largely disappeared because of the Railway Labor Act.
    — The Editors, National Review, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Israeli demands for the mass evacuation of parts of Gaza have raised the specter of ethnic cleansing.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
  • For Ukraine, the strike helped open the floodgates of Western weapons and deflated the specter of an invincible Russian army.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has, sadly, brought the specter of nuclear weaponry to the fore once again.
    — WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Just as important was the specter of Soviet Communism, which drove the old German elite to support Hitler in the first place.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Its shares plunged earlier this week, raising the specter of a third major US bank implosion in days.
    — Ellen Francis, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The specter of a co-dependence label raises its aucourant head.
    — Lisa Z. Lindahl, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Yankee Jim isn't the only specter, though — both Mr. and Mrs. Whaley, a young girl, and even the family dog have been known to make appearances from beyond the grave.
    — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2023
  • In recent decades, researchers have both raised and downplayed the specter of Atlantic current collapse.
    — Time, 27 July 2023
  • At the time the charges were dismissed, Blanche also raised the specter of a political prosecution.
    — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023

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