as in suspenser
something (as a close contest) that induces much suspense as to its outcome
those television awards are hardly thrillers since the same people win year after year
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Recent Examples of thriller
Schreiber can now be seen in the Netflix miniseries His & Hers and the action thriller Motor City.
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Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2026
This Southern Gothic thriller features creepy prose written like a riddle to be solved.
—Amanda Favazza, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2026
The Seattle Seahawks surpassed the Los Angeles Rams in a 31-27 thriller of a game for the NFC championship.
—Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 5 Feb. 2026
Last year’s Venice Film Festival premiered Yorgos Lanthimos’s demented sci-fi-adjacent drama Bugonia and Gus Van Sant’s crime thriller Dead Man’s Wire, while at the same time the Toronto International Film Festival was premiering Romain Gavras’s comic-epic Sacrifice.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2026
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Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2026
This Southern Gothic thriller features creepy prose written like a riddle to be solved.
—Amanda Favazza, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2026
The Seattle Seahawks surpassed the Los Angeles Rams in a 31-27 thriller of a game for the NFC championship.
—Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 5 Feb. 2026
Last year’s Venice Film Festival premiered Yorgos Lanthimos’s demented sci-fi-adjacent drama Bugonia and Gus Van Sant’s crime thriller Dead Man’s Wire, while at the same time the Toronto International Film Festival was premiering Romain Gavras’s comic-epic Sacrifice.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thriller
suspenser
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Directed by Nelicia Low, the suspenser follows a young fencer struggling with keeping his secret crush on a fellow fencer from his homophobic mother.—
Vivienne Chow,
Variety,
17 May 2022
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On the other hand, the story introduces fictional characters and elements that give it the air of a suspenser, exactly the sort for which Harris is so popular.—
Frank Scheck,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Jan. 2022
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“Thriller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thriller. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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