hades

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Recent Examples of hades 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 Most importantly, the songs were catchy and moving, from Hades’ bassy crooning to Orpheus’ haunting boy voice. Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 16 July 2025 That’s popular roguelike Hades, which first became popular on PC and Nintendo Switch before being released on iPhone and iPad exclusively through Netflix. James Peckham, PC Magazine, 24 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hades
Noun
  • How Dutch footballers get dragged into drug wars The conviction of ex-Premier League defender Ronnie Stam for drug smuggling last week — expertly covered by Danny Taylor — wasn’t the first time a Dutch footballer has run into trouble with the criminal underworld.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Her determined search leads her into a decades-old mystery rooted in the Detroit underworld.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Nicole finds herself in an all too familiar place for those who have experienced the early phase of young-onset neurological disease, a netherworld between acceptance and denial.
    Gus Alexiou, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
  • The twin netherworlds—named after the mythical Greek god of the underworld and the pilot who shuttled souls across the river Styx—circle more than five billion kilometers distant from the sun, along an orbit that Stern’s Pluto expedition took nine years to reach.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • Taylor Swift poured tanks of gasoline on social media, struck a match and lit the internet in an inferno of excitement.
    Bryan West, The Tennessean, 13 Aug. 2025
  • It is not yet known whether the person died in the inferno or drowned.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 20 July 2025
Noun
  • But unlocking scientific knowledge that would otherwise stay stuck in academic purgatory.
    Igor Trunov, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • These teams are looking to either escape or avoid purgatory in the NHL’s middle ground and are all, to varying degrees, viewing this offseason as an opportunity to make that transition into the first group of contending teams.
    Arpon Basu, New York Times, 21 June 2025

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“Hades.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hades. Accessed 2 Sep. 2025.

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