How to Use Medea in a Sentence

Medea

noun
  • There was a moment when Ed could almost be in a Medea movie.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The meta-movie is set on a troubled set where a team is struggling to adapt Euripides’ Medea.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The film explores how trauma can foster dangerous rage while building a powerful parallel between that anger and the classic tale of Medea.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The author of A Thousand Ships and Stone Blind reimagines the Greek myth of Medea as a passion play, rife with domestic fury and murder most foul.
    Hamilton Cain, Time, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Ibsen’s tragic anti-heroine shares character DNA with Medea and Lady Macbeth.
    Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • In Aeschylus’s The Suppliants or Euripides’ Medea the chorus of women stands as witness—voicing sorrow, rage, warning.
    Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Months later, Gershon was hanging from the ceiling, dressed in bondage gear, reflecting upon her early acting goals to perform Chekhov, portray Medea and stun audiences into silence.
    Cat Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Technologically, the company leans on its proprietary Medea dispatch platform to manage its portfolio with minute-by-minute optimization for safe and efficient operation.
    Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025

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