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Recent Examples of ghoulish
Politics Trump officials’ defiance over Abrego Garcia’s deportation is ‘shocking,’ appeals court says
April 17, 2025
His underlings ape his ghoulish glee in making life miserable for undocumented immigrants.
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Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2025
Banning access to the ghoulish inner guts of the wreck, as well as recovering objects to study, to many, is bizarre.
—Sean Kingsley, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
The team’s last three regular-seasons have been ghoulish: 27-55, 21-61 and now 19-59.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2025
The official White House Twitter account is doing something, well, ghoulish and inexplicable.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2025
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Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2025
Banning access to the ghoulish inner guts of the wreck, as well as recovering objects to study, to many, is bizarre.
—Sean Kingsley, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
The team’s last three regular-seasons have been ghoulish: 27-55, 21-61 and now 19-59.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2025
The official White House Twitter account is doing something, well, ghoulish and inexplicable.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghoulish
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Ghost Tour: Take a night tour through the eerie streets of Bisbee, known for its haunted past and the ghostly tales of its mining days.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 July 2025
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Their love is reignited in the most unlikely form, but not everyone welcomes her return—especially March’s family, still unsettled by a ghostly presence that appeared after a factory worker’s death forced their business to close.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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The team noticed that eureka moments seemed to be highly correlated with a steep EEG spectral slope—the steeper the slope, the more likely people were to get a breakthrough.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 July 2025
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In his music, the phrase takes on a spectral weight: five leaves left on a tree, trembling as summer slips into fall; five moments of clarity before sleep; five truths too delicate for morning.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
5 July 2025
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The market is just full of butcher shops, with the most ghastly whole pigs and halves of steers hanging from horrible hooks.—
John Updike,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
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Regretfully, my brother—probably the only person who might’ve been able to look past my cowboy getup and glue-on horseshoe moustache and ghastly wax-like exterior—was being punished at home for stealing cigarettes.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
18 June 2025
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That kind of eerie alignment is how the song came into the world in the first place.—
Sarah Grant,
Rolling Stone,
23 July 2025
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By the time of totality at 3:20 p.m., dense clouds obscured the view, with an eerie darkness and a golden horizon.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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Known for her work on Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby, the Oscar-winning designer brings a moody, vintage glamour to spooky season.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 July 2025
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The Practical Magic sequel is slated to hit theaters Sept. 18, 2026, just in time for spooky season.—
Mekishana Pierre,
EW.com,
14 July 2025
Adjective
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The sobering and haunting experience, MacDonald said, has sparked an interest in how the search for missing persons can be improved.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
29 June 2025
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The video plays clips of the Weeknd singing the haunting lyrics in front of several cement backdrops that show the star stuck in a sort of purgatory.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
6 June 2025
Adjective
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Written about British occultist Aleister Crowley and released in the United States a year after Osbourne’s album debuted, the song projected creepy organ sounds straight from Dracula’s coffin before monster guitar playing from Rhoades drove a stake through any sympathy for the devil.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
23 July 2025
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Others are not so great—like week-long heat advisories and unwelcome house guests in the form of creepy, crawly millipedes.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
21 July 2025
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Some 40 of these bizarre, geochemically-active sub-Neptunes are currently being studied observationally.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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As a result of a bizarre last-minute decision, the nominees in two Emmys categories will be announced Tuesday morning on CBS nearly four hours ahead of the TV Academy’s official nominations announcement, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.—
Beatrice Verhoeven,
HollywoodReporter,
14 July 2025
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