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The crime drama follows a small-time Chinatown luxury counterfeit dealer who enters a dangerous black-market underworld in order to fund a life of suburban respectability for her family.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
25 Sep. 2025 -
Bruno himself is preëxistingly missing, having vanished some years earlier, when things started getting uncomfortably hot in the cheese underworld.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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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
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The other two-thirds are on a scale of anxiously hopeful to beyond desperate -- an amorphous netherworld of doubt that, yes, includes the Miami Dolphins with Tua Tagovailoa, or should.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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The inferno moved rapidly, quickly engulfing the chapel – with an unknown number of people still inside.—
Holly Yan,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2025
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The streamer will also be on stage for a panel about Paul Greengrass’ The Lost Bus, in which a wayward school bus driver and a dedicated school teacher battle to save 22 children from a terrifying inferno.—
The Deadline Team,
Deadline,
29 Sep. 2025
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The soul is the same one that ancient Egyptians called the ka, or that God promises the psalmist will be rescued from Sheol, or that lay dormant in the minds of so many contemporary American readers, waiting for the right sound to set it free.—
Christian Wiman,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Aug. 2024
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In the 1997 film, it's revealed that Meg sold her soul to Hades to save her boyfriend, who eventually left her for another woman.—
Meredith Wilshere,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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The seeds seal Persephone’s fate as one who must spend part of every year with Hades among the dead.—
Demir Alp,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Aug. 2025
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They had been overly motivated to find a star QB after years of positional purgatory, but the return on investment hasn’t materialized.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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Unfortunately, Thirtysomething is still languishing in streaming purgatory, with the show only available to watch on DVD.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Tartarus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Tartarus. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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