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How to use the word specter in a Sentence?

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As philosophers tread the path where circuits intertwine with consciousness, the specter of machine sentience challenges not only our ethical compass but forces us to reconsider the sanctity of consciousness, questioning whether it is an exclusive birthright of biology or a frontier open to the artifice of silicon minds.

Martin Tobias Lithner

added by huyenhuyen19921992
3 months ago

As philosophers tread the path where circuits intertwine with consciousness, the specter of machine sentience challenges not only our ethical compass but forces us to reconsider the sanctity of consciousness, questioning whether it is an exclusive birthright of biology or a frontier open to the artifice of silicon minds.

Martin Tobias Lithner

added by huyenhuyen19921992
3 months ago

A default would be a catastrophic blow to the already fragile economy, the timing couldn’t be worse for the economy, as even before the specter of a debt limit breach many CEOs and economists believe a recession is likely this year.

Mark Zandi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even for those providers who are confident that what they're doing is within the letter of the law, they face the specter of potentially ruinous litigation. They can't stop it. They can't avoid it. They can't pre-empt it.

Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They're gon na lose even though they win, and that's the chilling effect, they face this specter of potentially endless ruinous litigation that it just can't stop. They can't avoid ; they can't preempt.

Stephen Vladeck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

specter’ of something purely hypothetical plainly does not warrant an adjournment.

Jesse M. Furman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Bolsonaro appears to be visibly upset at what has happened in United States because United States raises the specter of Jair Bolsonaro own potential electoral failing in Jair Bolsonaro bid for reelection in two years.

Mark Langevin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There's this specter that the same issues will come back.

Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It makes the specter of Covid-19 even more frightening, it places just one more additional burden It could be devastating.

Gregorio Millett

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Throughout his confirmation process, Judge Kavanaugh has had 65 meetings with senators -- including with Sen. Feinstein -- sat through over 30 hours of testimony, addressed over 2,000 questions in a public setting and additional questions in a confidential session. Not until the eve of his confirmation has Sen. Feinstein or anyone raised the specter of new' information' about him.

White House

Found on CNN
5 years ago

For the most part, the specter of trade wars is still really weighing on risk here and that's what's keeping Treasuries better bid.

Gennadiy Goldberg

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Joining ‘Suits’ was the perfect organic way to not only collaborate with an EP I admire deeply, but to also become part of a show and cast that I am an immense fan of, i have watched ‘Suits’ from the very beginning and feel incredibly lucky to be the newest member of the Pearson Specter Litt family.

Katherine Heigl

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Uncertainty and the specter of a dictatorship are looming over our country once again.

Benigno Aquino on Friday

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Nearly every surviving detainee has emerged from custody having suffered unimaginable abuses, for ordinary Syrians, the specter of arrest or abduction, and the near-inevitable horrors that follow, have paralyzed communities across the country.

Paulo Pinheiro

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He seems to have scared Davutoglu into toeing his line by raising the specter of his man Binali Yildirim contesting the leadership.

Halil Karaveli

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Lack of structural reforms raises the specter of permanent economic divergence between members, and insofar as this threatens the essential cohesion of the Union, this has potentially damaging consequences for all.

Mario Draghi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Joseph Conrad

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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