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- noun Plural form of
phantasm .
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Examples
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In mediums of the ideological, textual, and memetic, however, fighting back against malicious phantasms is unproductive.
Balkinization 2007
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They are also called phantasms, which is in the same language, apparitions.
Leviathan 2007
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They are also called phantasms, which is in the same language, apparitions.
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651
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"... fighting back against malicious phantasms is unproductive."
Balkinization 2007
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433 Whereby it is manifest that the Jews had the same opinions concerning phantasms; namely, that they were not phantasms, that is, idols of the brain, but things real, and independent on the fancy.
Leviathan 2007
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They're not 'phantasms' if they exist, are active & are actively subverting Democracy.
Heads up staffers, tips to avoid a Health Care "Town Hell" (Blog for Democracy) 2009
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It was haunted ground, and then, as now, "phantasms" were about.
The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898
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All of the corporate complaints above, when you dig an inch below the surface, amount to lashing out at phantasms.
Is Obama anti-business? Ezra Klein 2010
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Equipped with a variety of unique weapons and gadgets, you will hunt, fight and capture a wide range of uncanny phantasms and demons in an all-new, funny and frightening battle to save New York City from its latest paranormal plague.
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Along the way we meet a multitude of different characters: beautiful models, fiendish figures, phantasms and prostitutes.
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