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Recent Examples of hades
In the 1997 film, it's revealed that Meg sold her soul to Hades to save her boyfriend, who eventually left her for another woman.
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Meredith Wilshere,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
The seeds seal Persephone’s fate as one who must spend part of every year with Hades among the dead.
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Demir Alp,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Aug. 2025
Using gifts from the gods—Athena's polished shield, Hermes' winged sandals, Hades' helm of invisibility, and a sword—Perseus beheaded Medusa and later used her head as a weapon.
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Amanda Castro
hannah Parry
anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Aug. 2025
Epstein himself, competing from Hades, placed third (9.5 percent).
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George Kalogerakis,
Air Mail,
9 Aug. 2025
In the Greek myth, musician Orpheus loses wife Eurydice to a snake bite and travels to the underworld to plead with Hades for her return.
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Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
8 Aug. 2025
The fictional Night Raven College serves as a training ground for aspiring sorcerers, with dormitories themed around villainous icons like the Queen of Hearts, Scar, Ursula, Jafar, the Evil Queen, Hades and Maleficent.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
5 Aug. 2025
Riordan also announced, via a pre-taped video, that demigods Nico di Angelo and his sister Bianca, children of Hades, will be played in Season 3 by child actor Levi Chrisopulos and Olive Abercrombie (Mayfair Witches, Outer Range).
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Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
24 July 2025
Percy immediately returns the Helm to Hades, and decides to take the Bolt straight to Olympus himself — which is on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building.
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EW.com,
22 July 2025
Meredith Wilshere,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
The seeds seal Persephone’s fate as one who must spend part of every year with Hades among the dead.
—
Demir Alp,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Aug. 2025
Using gifts from the gods—Athena's polished shield, Hermes' winged sandals, Hades' helm of invisibility, and a sword—Perseus beheaded Medusa and later used her head as a weapon.
—
Amanda Castro
hannah Parry
anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Aug. 2025
Epstein himself, competing from Hades, placed third (9.5 percent).
—
George Kalogerakis,
Air Mail,
9 Aug. 2025
In the Greek myth, musician Orpheus loses wife Eurydice to a snake bite and travels to the underworld to plead with Hades for her return.
—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
8 Aug. 2025
The fictional Night Raven College serves as a training ground for aspiring sorcerers, with dormitories themed around villainous icons like the Queen of Hearts, Scar, Ursula, Jafar, the Evil Queen, Hades and Maleficent.
—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
5 Aug. 2025
Riordan also announced, via a pre-taped video, that demigods Nico di Angelo and his sister Bianca, children of Hades, will be played in Season 3 by child actor Levi Chrisopulos and Olive Abercrombie (Mayfair Witches, Outer Range).
—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
24 July 2025
Percy immediately returns the Helm to Hades, and decides to take the Bolt straight to Olympus himself — which is on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building.
—
EW.com,
22 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hades
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In the dark underworld of New Orleans, the Winters family builds an empire around a powerful new drug—crafted from the ashes of the dead—that grants users vivid, haunting visions of the past.
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Del Toro remains one of Hollywood’s most imaginative visual entertainers, and the prospect of visiting his long-dormant underworld later in 2026 promises not just fresh nostalgia but maybe even total immersion.
Noun
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Alistair Taylor’s reward for accompanying him into this teenage netherworld was to be given lunch at his current favorite city-center restaurant, the Peacock.
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The rules of this netherworld announce themselves, early on, via a nondescript wall sign.
Noun
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But Grand Junction’s cloudless blue sky gave no hint of the inferno that continued to ravage the Colorado-Utah border less than an hour away.
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The story detailed the first critical hours of the Palisades fire, when thousands of residents had to decide whether and how to flee the inferno.
Noun
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Four straight years stuck in play-in purgatory can do that.
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After spending the past few seasons in rebuilding purgatory, the Utah Jazz are poised to get back into the NBA playoff mix in 2026-27.
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The soul is the same one that ancient Egyptians called the ka, or that God promises the psalmist will be rescued from Sheol, or that lay dormant in the minds of so many contemporary American readers, waiting for the right sound to set it free.
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“Hades.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hades. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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