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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a ghost of the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to describe something that is a remnant or faint trace of something that once existed or was more prominent.
Example: "The old mansion stood as a ghost of the grandeur it once possessed, now only a shadow of its former self."
Alternatives: "a remnant of the" or "a shadow of the".
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(He's a ghost of the past, heard at 78 r.p.m).
A ghost of the ghost he had already become.
The party's lack of openness is a ghost of the liberation struggle.
Even the trial itself seems likely to be a ghost of a ghost of the original.
A future major winner or a ghost of the great player he used to be?
Today there's just a ghost of the Jewish community in Spain.
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"I shall costume myself as a ghost of what the white man used to be".
"The past is a ghost in the present just as the present is a ghost of prescience in the past," Campbell writes in the play's introduction.
The Volcker Rule was now a ghost of itself, with the details left to regulators.
It recalls a ghost of campaigns past: the 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial race.
World is steel, a ghost of goose down feathering the air.
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