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Recent Examples of zombie
On Tuesday morning, however, Apple and Google’s app stores remain bereft of TikTok, leaving the app in a bit of a zombie existence.
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Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 21 Jan. 2025
Set in Nebraska 10 years after the zombie apocalypse, the series chronicles the lives of teenagers who are the first generation to come of age in a post-apocalyptic era.
—Skyler Caruso, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Since then, both Charter and Comcast have relentlessly restructured carriage deals, dropping of some zombie channels, moderating fee hikes, and getting the right to include subscription streaming services from these same media companies.
—David Bloom, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
And if Lesley died getting punched in the stomach, how did her zombie face end of up looking like… that?
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 Jan. 2025
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Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 21 Jan. 2025
Set in Nebraska 10 years after the zombie apocalypse, the series chronicles the lives of teenagers who are the first generation to come of age in a post-apocalyptic era.
—Skyler Caruso, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Since then, both Charter and Comcast have relentlessly restructured carriage deals, dropping of some zombie channels, moderating fee hikes, and getting the right to include subscription streaming services from these same media companies.
—David Bloom, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
And if Lesley died getting punched in the stomach, how did her zombie face end of up looking like… that?
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for zombie
Recent Examples of Synonyms for zombie
Noun
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Of course, Sarah Michelle Gellar would reprise her role as the epic vampire slayer Buffy Summers.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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But rather than portraying a high school student tasked with saving the world from evil, Gellar will reportedly have a recurring role in support of a new vampire slayer.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Lopez’s Spider Woman gets a bad pixie wig and even more garish goth costuming appropriate for a bewitching, bitchy succubus.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2025
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That includes, but is not limited to...actual humans, DMs, AI bots or succubus demons.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
11 Dec. 2024
Noun
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This meaning is visualized in Henry Fuseli’s 1781 painting The Nightmare, which shows a woman sleeping peacefully on a couch while a nauseating monster—an incubus—sits portentously on her abdomen, unbeknownst to her.—
Time,
Time,
28 Dec. 2022
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As Tommy’s experiences in the tunnels of France mark a continued incubus for his character, with visions of being pulled into the mud, the sounding of the bell coincides with his own inner peace.—
Josh St. Clair,
Men's Health,
13 June 2022
Noun
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Both movies feature a killer clown, but while Joaquin Phoenix’s grinning menace suffers from delusions of grandeur and an unspecified mental illness, the hideous ghoul from hell in Terrifier known as Art hacks away at his victims with no discernible motivation beyond the grisly acts themselves.—
Eric Kohn,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Jan. 2025
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The Order shows us how someone with real smarts could turn these ghouls into a more effective and organized army.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
6 Dec. 2024
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“Zombie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zombie. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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