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The phrase "a shadow of something" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe something that is a diminished or less significant version of something else.
Example: "The once-thriving business is now just a shadow of its former self."
Alternatives: "a mere reflection of" or "a faint echo of".
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But there was something else nevertheless, I sensed, a shadow of something else.
I saw a shadow of something, sadness or fear.
Even that name, "Spectre," suggests its a shadow of something else.
Nearing it, I saw a shadow of something cross a Juniper plant by the roadside.
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The Wooster Group quickly saw that emulating the style of "Streetcar" and other classic Williams movies made by Elia Kazan would feel, as Mr. Shepherd said, "like a facsimile of something, like a weak shadow of something great that's gone".
For a brief charged time I may be irradiated, able to cast a shadow version of something I only imagine.
Where's that?' I said, we're like you, we're a digital hub in the shadow of something bigger, in their case Silicon Valley and in ours London.
Like its protagonist, Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor inescapably lives in the shadow of something larger.
"I want you to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, there is something much greater than us coming here," he said.
And always, beneath the accessible everyday, the shadow of something just hidden.
"You're always doing stuff in the shadow of something, and obviously if you've been in the Beatles you're in a big shadow," he said.
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