as in chthonian
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Adjective
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The infernal noise was an equal opportunity terrifier — frightening both men and women.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
2 Oct. 2025 -
His infernal fantasies connect to Riley’s haunted autobiographies, her family photos rewoven into monumental weavings.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
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Aeacus, a judge of the dead, and Thanatos, winged daemon of death, are chthonic.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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That’s because the Greeks distinguished between Olympian gods, who lived on Mt. Olympus, and chthonic gods, who lived in the underworld.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
20 Jan. 2025
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The younger, David Fagen of Tampa, was a nineteen-year-old phosphate miner who worked hellish ten-hour shifts for one dollar a day.—
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Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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There’s also an alien Sequid army slowly forming, Cecil Stedman (Walton Goggins) is secretly keeping Conquest incarcerated, the battle-hungry Battle Beast is alive and the demonic detective Damien Darkblood is summoning a hellish monster to fight Invincible.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
10 Oct. 2025
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