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"a specter of" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a sense or feeling of something that is haunting, looming, or threatening in a figurative or symbolic sense. Example: The town was gripped with a specter of fear as rumors of a serial killer spread throughout the community.
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Now, looking back a year later, it's hard not to see a specter of Pepe the Frog haunting the twinkle in Harambe's eyes.
Stay awhile, concentrate, and details emerge: a whisper of color, a specter of geometry.
Clean, Anders is a specter of his former self, visiting old haunts without being fully there.
Alec Baldwin plays the older architect — a ghost? a specter of the younger man's self?
Thus a specter of skewed incentives will haunt a Donald Trump presidency.
"There is indeed a specter haunting this appeal, and that is a specter of the mayoralty election," he said.
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For the first time in post-Soviet history, a wide specter of political forces cannot participate in this election.
Globalization, in turn, means a looming specter of protectionism incites fear in Asian business leaders.
The effect is of a ghostly specter of the twin towers.
The chemotherapeutic agent mitomycin C (MMC) has previously been used in treatment of a wide specter of malignancies, in particular gastrointestinal, lung, head and neck and gynecological cancer [ 1].
If governments refuse to take a hit, the specter of a messy Greek default could return.
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