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  • noun Plural form of ectoplasm.

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Examples

  • "Did I speak to you ectoplasms about this, or did I not?"

    Boing Boing 2009

  • I had put off telling them about LaSalle wanting to discuss ghosts and ectoplasms before agreeing to produce their new record.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • (An answer based in medicine rather than in oversexed ectoplasms will help.)

    Change we can believe in? On 'CSI,' not 'Grey's' 2008

  • I had put off telling them about LaSalle wanting to discuss ghosts and ectoplasms before agreeing to produce their new record.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • I had put off telling them about LaSalle wanting to discuss ghosts and ectoplasms before agreeing to produce their new record.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

    Karen Ocamb: Barack Obama, Linda Douglass, and Little Ole LGBT Me 2009

  • No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

    Barack Obama Wins! Why Are Black Americans Crying? 2008

  • I don't mean that the images of spirits and ectoplasms and mediums lofting card tables into the air are believable (although they are, I suppose, if you wish them to be).

    Boing Boing: September 25, 2005 - October 1, 2005 Archives 2005

  • This fascinating book assembles more than 250 photographic images from the Victorian era to the 1960s, each purporting to document an occult phenomenon: levitations, apparitions, transfigurations, ectoplasms, spectres, ghosts, and auras.

    Yale Press Log: 2007

  • This fascinating book assembles more than 250 photographic images from the Victorian era to the 1960s, each purporting to document an occult phenomenon: levitations, apparitions, transfigurations, ectoplasms, spectres, ghosts, and auras.

    Spine-tingling books from YUP 2007

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