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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Tophet
Noun
  • If this is the slow kind of hell, I’m used to it— My hands are folded the wrong way, the cat sits on the bed Like a limpet, the sun drops out of the sky, inexorable As a chandelier earring.
    Jane Yeh, The New York Review of Books, 8 May 2025
  • The first is Lorraine Bracco’s Roberta, his mother’s best friend, a passionate Sicilian now raising hell in a nursing home.
    EW.com, EW.com, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Thursday that 18 suspects have been arrested for alleged arson amid the inferno, which has spread across more than 5,000 acres in the foothills of Jerusalem over the past two days.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • With too little carbon dioxide, Earth can become a frozen wasteland, and with too much, a sweltering inferno.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Appropriately for a fantasy of perdition suited to this nihilistic century, the logic of eternal punishment remains opaque.
    Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The perdition market did not respond to Newsweek's request for comment asking if an announcement like FanDuel's would follow.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Tophet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Tophet. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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