soap opera

as in corn
something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental the movie started out well, but quickly devolved into improbable soap opera

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Recent Examples of soap opera But the soap opera, reality show- like feud has dominated cable news coverage, podcasts, primetime opinion programming and late night. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 June 2025 If the bill is signed into law, Ritter strongly wants to turn the page, end the soap opera, and keep the controversial agency out of the newspapers. Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 19 May 2025 Rather than rising up and killing its former masters, Murderbot just goes about performing its security work, relieving the boredom by watching a lot of entertainment media; its favorite is a soap opera called The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon. ArsTechnica, 19 May 2025 Eight months later, his Days of Our Lives character, John Black, took his final bow on the June 2 episode of the soap opera he's starred on for 38 years. Julia Moore, People.com, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for soap opera
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Noun
  • There will be entertainment with DJ and games, face painting and corn hole along with food vendors.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025
  • Diverting corn from grocery stores to gas tanks pushes up commodity prices—which, in turn, encourages farmers to convert forests and marshes into cropland.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Using more sludge and less slag in their recipe, researchers were able to create a material that's stronger than even today's enhanced cements and highly resistant to corrosion by acid.
    Michael Franco, New Atlas, 9 June 2025
  • The film careens between a dreary sludge of despair and eventual heart-palpitating nightmare, Grace caught in a mercurial storm of her own moods without ballast and unable to be understood by those around her.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 May 2025

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“Soap opera.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soap%20opera. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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