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(n.)
The digital residue left by someone who has gone from your life, keeping them unforgettably present long after they’ve left.
Two years after the breakup, his ghostprint still surfaces in every Korean thriller the algorithm recommends.
Does it ring true?
From the future, or already here?
Originally a printmaking term describing the faint, secondary image that appears after initial monotype printing, popularized by Edgar Degas in the late 19th century. Also related to ghosting, when someone abruptly cuts off all communication and vanishes but with a ghostprint they refuse to.
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