Examples
“I gotta say though, I find it interesting the number of believers in ghosts is rising while the number of theists is allegedly falling.”
“The indulgence in ghosts is iffier: The phantoms are striking at first, but by the climactic battle scene, there are so many creeping, rolling spooks onstage that the play starts to look like a zombie-themed modern dance production.”
The Washington Post: Washington Shakespeare Company's haunted 'Richard III' isn't haunting enough
“Given Palin's inability to master basic English, I'd suggest that belief in ghosts is entirely warranted, at least insofar as the authorship of her book is concerned.”
“However, having about half of you Americans believing in ghosts is a little troubling.”
Pew and the Democratic War on Science. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
“I was listening to NPR this morning — one of the few perks of Bell's satellite TV service — and heard the perplexing statistic that 40% of British citizens believe in ghosts, which is up from 30% fifty years ago.”
“When we met up with Nic in Los Angeles, he was working on another book, but still haunted by what he calls the ghosts of his past.”
“Are they the same as what we call ghosts, the spirits of dead people?”
“That's what she calls ghosts," Manfred said, and suddenly he was just a very young man again, holding hands with a woman he thought was cute, and giving her a big grin.”
“Spirits, what you call ghosts and say you no believe in, but always look for behind door, they worship Yellow God, Bonsa Big and Bonsa Little, worship both and call them one; only Little Bonsa on trip to this country just now and sit and think in City office.”
“Dr. Parker tells Lia: "In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ghosts’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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soul mate
soul mate, soul mates, soul, portishead, wounded, death, depression, hurt, the cure, pain, longing, rat and 424 more...
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Apples to Apples: Red Cards
A complete list of the red cards (things) from the popular word game.
bad haircut, carnival workers, grave robbers, Chinatown, a cheap motel, killer whales, UV rays, flat tire, Japan, Michelangelo, Alfred Hitchcock, Cindy Crawford and 734 more...
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warp, woof, wimble
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."
meadow, felten, gray, yawn, lee, yonder, galilee, ought, dolorous, sage, hallelujah, cotton and 59 more...
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Tunie: And the Band Played Waltzing M...
I used to sing this as a lullaby to my spawn—till said spawn grew big enough to understand the words, and asked me to sing something else.
Written by Eric Bogle, c. 1971.
...billabong, ghosts, no one, fewer, the call, question, what are they mar..., forgotten war, forgotten, sore, stiff, bent and 66 more...
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Tunie: Night Train to Lorca
By the Pogues, on the LP "Peace and Love." I don't know if it's the stark simplicity of the individual words or the evocative images conjured by their juxtaposition, but I simply love these lyrics....
crow, rooster, dawn, cranks, whirling, pistons, gleaming, glow, orange, eye, flames, danced and 48 more...
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Tunie: Belong
by Great Big Sea.
Jenny said goodbye this afternoon
As far as I can tell
She can't bear the goodbye evenings
Or the morning-afters of farewell
She says "Here yo...care, last flower in th..., whispered, fear, won't be back, front door, path, beat, cousins, close, foreign coast, tide and 33 more...
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Meta
Because in this crazy place, technical feedback on site bugs goes on the page for the word 'bugs'. See also Meta Squared, plethora's list of meta lists.
bugs, features, mobile, wordie, wordnet, madeupical, tagging, merch, weirdnet, tag, meta, search and 83 more...
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reecedano's Words
recalcitrant, cake, stochastic, ghosts, pique, muffinaire, typography, headache, fidget, axilla
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ghosts.
bilby Still there :-) Dec 15, 2008
bilby Over 1 day. Dec 10, 2008
bilby Edit - John, it's at least 13 hours and counting.
When you click on the more link, nothing happens. Predictably :-) Dec 9, 2008
sionnach Weirdnet can be so droll:
"the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life"
though I suppose that's a step above "move like a ghost". Dec 9, 2008
john 7 minutes, at most. Dec 9, 2008
bilby We kind of have ghost comments.
Recently I saw this on the front page:
on cis, fieldway said:
“CURRICULUM INFORMATION SERVICE
LOOKING FOR MORE SCHOOL CURRICULUM RESOURCES?
When you need curriculum resources to support your teaching...�? more...
Neither the comment nor user still exists, presumably nuked (thanks J!). Yet, if you go to 'More Searches' and type, for example, curriculum information in the Search All Comments box, a result still comes up:
"24 minutes ago fieldway said:
CURRICULUM INFORMATION SERVICE
LOOKING FOR MORE SCHOOL CURRICULUM RESOURCES?
When you need curriculum resources to support..." more...
I wonder how long ghost comments - at least the part until truncation - remain? Dec 9, 2008