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The phrase "are spectre" is not correct in written English.
It appears to be a fragment and lacks proper context or grammatical structure.
Example: "The shadows in the old house are spectre-like, haunting the memories of those who lived there."
Alternatives: "are ghostly" or "are apparitional".
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are spectre
noun
Standard spelling of specter
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With their wide-eyed, eerie stare and night time activity, lemurs are spectre-like figures of Madagascar's forests: 'lemur' means ghost in Latin, and it is not difficult to see how the enigmatic and elusive animals got their name.
Right now we've got Skyfall and there's Spectre on the way.
Among the blockbusters they used as examples were Spectre, Transformers: Age of Extinction and The Woman in Black.
What is Spectre?
Vincent Tan's flamboyance is pure Blofeld, and then there's SPECTRE running the show at Ibrox.
What do you think of the direction the Bond films have taken in recent years, the most recent, of course, being Spectre?
There is a spectre haunting Europe – the spectre of mass unemployment.
You're a spectre at the feast before you ghost.
She is a spectre.
Another is the spectre of "sharia risk".
"It was the spectre of Vietnam.
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