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as in monster
a strange or horrible and often frightening creature
a horror movie filled with ogres and demons of every description
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as in dread
something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason
the ogre of the standardized test keeps recurring
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Recent Examples of ogre
Goldberg has flipped her once-charming smile into an ogre’s grimace through daily attacks on national civility from the Democratic Party bully pulpit of ABC-Disney’s The View.
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Armond White, National Review, 7 Mar. 2025
Exploring the main hub that opens the game, there’s NPCs like the ogre-like Raken the Berserker and Maugis, a mysteriously veiled tentacled figure, both of which can help users upgrade their various abilities to power up with permanent unlocks that give Absolum its RPG-like functionality.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
Since the trailer dropped, fans have taken to social media to make memes from the trailer or express surprise over the ogre and his family’s new looks.
—Sharareh Drury, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025
There’s even a first look at Zendaya’s teen-girl ogre — red hair, bangs, and all — in a new teaser for the movie.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
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Armond White, National Review, 7 Mar. 2025
Exploring the main hub that opens the game, there’s NPCs like the ogre-like Raken the Berserker and Maugis, a mysteriously veiled tentacled figure, both of which can help users upgrade their various abilities to power up with permanent unlocks that give Absolum its RPG-like functionality.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
Since the trailer dropped, fans have taken to social media to make memes from the trailer or express surprise over the ogre and his family’s new looks.
—Sharareh Drury, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025
There’s even a first look at Zendaya’s teen-girl ogre — red hair, bangs, and all — in a new teaser for the movie.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ogre
Noun
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The Switch was a monster, so the assumption is that sure, players will pay a full 50% more for a new one, if not more.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Oviedo and Sepúlveda shared with las Casas the view that Indians were not monsters and did, in fact, have souls that could be saved (a matter of debate for much of the sixteenth century).—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
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When the slasher eventually appears, stealing the group’s car before murdering them with a humorous bluntness, there is also a real atmosphere of dread.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Apr. 2025
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But his ailment looked to be grave enough to warrant dread.—
Marcus Thompson II,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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The massive spike in antisemitic incidents that followed the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks in 2023 continued last year, according to data compiled by the Anti-Defamation League.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
22 Apr. 2025
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The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 will spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history and the worst domestic terror attack on Hispanics that the country has ever seen.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies?—
TIME Staff,
Time,
18 Apr. 2025
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The character went from being Emily’s friend to becoming her enemy as the two wrestled in a love triangle with Gabriel.—
Vivian Kwarm,
New York Daily News,
18 Apr. 2025
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Sailing teaches us that being an honorable competitor is more important than being a top competitor because while every race is there to lose, luck is the omnipresent hobgoblin.—
Conor Mastromarco,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Nov. 2024
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Gleeson’s Puck is a malevolent hobgoblin who serves as the royal jester to King Auberon of Faerie.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
2 July 2024
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One of Trump’s longstanding bugbears has been America’s trade deficits with its neighbors and competitors including Canada, China, Mexico and the European Union.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
3 Apr. 2025
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Kuo also said the iPhone Fold, as it likely won’t be called, will address the biggest bugbear for folders: a too-visible crease in the internal display when it’s opened.—
David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Sunday’s semi-final was far from a complete performance, with familiar defensive lapses on the transition returning to plague a laboured second half.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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In those 14 weeks, the president has unleashed an economic agenda so punishing that the only way to understand it in a historical context is not through a lens of policy but of plagues.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Ogre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ogre. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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