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Recent Examples of zombie
Thatcher recalls filming a zombie movie at her 10th birthday party, assigning roles to all her friends, dressing them in costumes, and covering them in fake blood.
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Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
The film is jam-packed with wonderful ideas, though it’s seldom allowed to bring them all to fruition, if only because its zombies feel less like a pressing danger (or even metaphors) and more like trite interruptions.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
The Resident Evil movies, based on the Capcom video games, were a mix of horror, sci-fi and action genres and followed the adventures of a heroine who fights zombies and the Umbrella Corporation, the bio warfare company that let loose the monsters.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2025
Lynskey moves smoothly from apocalyptic tales about comets and asteroids to killer robots and infected zombies.
—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
The film is jam-packed with wonderful ideas, though it’s seldom allowed to bring them all to fruition, if only because its zombies feel less like a pressing danger (or even metaphors) and more like trite interruptions.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
The Resident Evil movies, based on the Capcom video games, were a mix of horror, sci-fi and action genres and followed the adventures of a heroine who fights zombies and the Umbrella Corporation, the bio warfare company that let loose the monsters.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2025
Lynskey moves smoothly from apocalyptic tales about comets and asteroids to killer robots and infected zombies.
—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zombie
Noun
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In another case, caskets containing the bodies of Israeli children were displayed on a stage under a propaganda banner that depicted Netanyahu as a vampire.—
Michael Collins,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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As a result, the sun is blocked out, and humans become pitted against vampires.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
27 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
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But according to Jason, his dad had some notes about the film’s inclusion of some of the ghouls from the 1984 original.—
John Russell,
People.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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Eliot beforehand – and the nightmarish inner gorge is a spiffy mix of nature run amok plus terrifying ghouls that would give Swamp Thing the willies.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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“Zombie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zombie. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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