| Of course, this scary apparition is a specter much more often cited than sighted. |
| But a series of U.S. and Soviet hydrogen bomb tests reawakened public fears, this time focused on the specter of radioactive fallout. |
| We would have a brighter future, not threatened by the specter of global warming. |
| The specter of the unfolding financial crisis incited some panic buying of Treasuries. |
| It was translucent and obviously a ghost or a close variation of a specter, bowing at the young scientist courteously. |
| The specter of human cloning, designer babies, and genetic discrimination looms on the horizon. |
