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Recent Examples of vamp
Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
Or will Peter Parker team up with a certain daywalker and start slaying vamps?
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 15 June 2024
McCarthy vamps it up as the conniving Ursula, going big but not too big — the one special effect that escapes the rest of the film’s soulless spectacle.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 May 2024
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Noun
With the aid of avant-pop producer Justin Raisen, Gordon’s unsettling speech fragments—that vamp on the relentless nature of technology and consumerism—float just above a froth of trap beats and industrial clamor.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
Or will Peter Parker team up with a certain daywalker and start slaying vamps?
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
Verb
In the livestream, which garnered hundreds of thousands of viewers, Gill vamped for about an hour against the backdrop of GameStop’s violently fluctuating share price.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 15 June 2024
McCarthy vamps it up as the conniving Ursula, going big but not too big — the one special effect that escapes the rest of the film’s soulless spectacle.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vamp
Noun
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Swim Week solidified the coquette swim trend as one to watch for the next couple of summers.—
Victoria Montalti,
refinery29.com,
4 June 2024
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The coquette trend is here to stay, according to Taylor Swift.—
Hannah Malach,
WWD,
3 Sep. 2019
Verb
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Gonzalez was the subject of some ribbing on social media for his pre-kick routine.—
Ben Morse,
CNN,
18 Jan. 2025
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And LaMelo surely will rib Lonzo about getting past Lonzo for a key drive to the bucket in the final minutes, drawing a foul on big brother, and also playing solid defense on Lonzo during a potential game-tying 3-pointer in the closing seconds.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Not only did diners want to enjoy her singing in the cabaret, no doubt many could not resist coming to see for themselves the soubrette who had inspired such fury in the late George VI.—
Olivia Williams,
Town & Country,
1 June 2021
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That show featured a song called 'The Yama Yama Man,’ in which chorus girls cavorted in Yama Yama suits while a soubrette sang about the creepy Yama Yama Man.—
Bulletin Board,
Twin Cities,
5 Feb. 2017
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Activision teases five new multiplayer maps being added to Black Ops 6 in the upcoming season, with two of them coming a few weeks after the update.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
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Though Evans comforted Bunny in person, Hot Ones made sure to tease him a little bit in post-production.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
23 Jan. 2025
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Holding an axe, she was portrayed as a murderous, wealth-seeking seductress who had beheaded her husbands, evident by their heads disappearing from the wedding portraits scattered around the attic.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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Catherine is a tease, a seductress — a teenager’s wet dream and a mother’s worst nightmare.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
22 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Pepe the King Prawn is a Spanish Muppet with four arms, orange skin and straggly hair; the character is known for being an outrageous flirt, and being offended when people refer to him as a shrimp.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
22 Dec. 2024
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In one scene, Walker watches as Choppa flirts with a woman during her own photoshoot.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
23 Dec. 2024
Verb
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All kidding aside, the Wild have surpassed the expectations of many, including The Athletic staff.—
Michael Russo,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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Justin Sherman: The TikTok Discourse Is Nonsense Anyone who perceives that the Chinese government can't pick a tech company in its borders and coerce it to support state efforts is kidding themselves.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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And on Friday night, that signal became a siren through his vote against Pete Hegseth’s nomination to lead the Pentagon, forcing Vice President J.D. Vance to make history by casting just the second Cabinet nominee’s tie-breaker.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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Traffic was horrible and the private crews can’t turn on a siren, ignore traffic laws, and drive on the wrong side of the road like public firefighters.—
Joseph Bien-Kahn,
Rolling Stone,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Vamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vamp. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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