CALVARIES Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

calvaries

noun

plural of calvary

as in tribulations

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Noun

The triumphs and tribulations that led to this point can be overridden with one swing.

— Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Like Anders, Douglas was eager not only to find a dramatic shape for her own personal romantic tribulations, but to tell the story of the explosion of creativity that took place in the Brill Building.

— Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of tribulations

Noun

But, according to the warrant, location data from the Equinox show the vehicle leaving Gonzalez’s house in Florida City and traveling to the scene of the murders.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
Investigators stressed that the poison was not the potassium cyanide used in the Tylenol murders.

— Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of murders

Noun

Vieira said the show offers another opportunity for people to discover Rockport beyond the fictional curses portrayed in the series.

— Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026
But repression isn’t a good plan when generations-long curses run in the bloodline, because Sally’s daughter Kylie (Joey King), now a college student, has gone and fallen in love behind her mother’s back.

— Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of curses

Noun

Rebecca and Verity, which stars Johnson, are also about a new, naïve lover entering the home of a bad man with a wife hidden in his house of horrors.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2026
Life goes on, in all its quirks and intimacies and frivolities, no matter what horrors might lurk on the horizon.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of horrors

Noun

Penal Code 597 states that any person who who maliciously and intentionally maims, mutilates, tortures, or wounds a living animal is guilty of a crime.

— Martha Ross, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2026
Tykes get slapped around, shot with arrows and dangled in traffic — tortures that are played seriously, but the shock of them allows you to guffaw.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026

Definition of tortures

Noun

Some residents said hope is elusive given the island’s litany of miseries – from natural disasters to a bankrupt government to a financial control board that manages funding for infrastructure.

— Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
Cyclospora, an intestinal parasite, has sickened thousands of people and hospitalized hundreds with explosive diarrhea, painful cramping, or other gastrointestinal miseries.

— Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 3 Aug. 2026

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