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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gorgon
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Into this vacuum, a misogynistic sense of her as a harridan or a drug-using flake emerged.
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Given its plotting, Brooks’s movie could easily have made Iris into a harridan and Isaac into a sociopathic rogue.
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Like most eagles, the aviary says the female harpy is significantly larger than the male — sometimes twice the size.
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And because harpies rely on large emergent trees for nesting and an extensive, continuous canopy for hunting, even partial deforestation will severely disrupt their ability to breed and forage.
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These are important tools used for both feeding and building their dens and digging for other menu items such as mice, gophers, voles and shrews.
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See page 8 to order a shrew for $29, plus shipping and handling.
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The novel’s two-part structure mirrors its central relationship: Jude, a drug-loving 1980s video vixen who soars too close to the sun, and Winnie, the best friend who remains after everything collapses and eventually begins to unravel the truth behind Jude’s disappearance.
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But where the original video vixen era prioritized physical spectacle and often reduced its subjects to aesthetic objects, this new wave is about intentional community-building.
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Skin is important here, not just its color but its texture as Josephine, for example, goes from elegant sophisticate to sweaty, sunburned, frizzy virago increasingly swollen with pregnancy and angry mosquito bites.
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Meredith is a stereotypical virago updated with modern libertarian notions.
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“Gorgon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gorgon. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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