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Recent Examples of crone
Two crones in Budapest are lording over a cauldron of goulash right now discussing the game.
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Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
Popular culture’s usual parade of toothless codgers and crones increasingly seemed obsolete.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
As the moon passes through its phases, Ixchel passes through the phases of a woman’s life, from maiden to mother to crone.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
From its use of camera angles and extreme close-ups to frame Sue's hypersexual appeal to the heinous prosthetics that transform Moore into a monstrous crone, writer-director Coralie Fargeat wants to hammer home the ugliness, objectification, and self-loathing perpetuated by female beauty standards.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
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Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
Popular culture’s usual parade of toothless codgers and crones increasingly seemed obsolete.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
As the moon passes through its phases, Ixchel passes through the phases of a woman’s life, from maiden to mother to crone.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
From its use of camera angles and extreme close-ups to frame Sue's hypersexual appeal to the heinous prosthetics that transform Moore into a monstrous crone, writer-director Coralie Fargeat wants to hammer home the ugliness, objectification, and self-loathing perpetuated by female beauty standards.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crone
Noun
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But any kinship with the master storyteller dissolves when the movie makes an abrupt swerve midway into witchy hag horror but fails to bolster that turn with compelling mythology.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Aug. 2025
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That lady is really the aforementioned murderous hag (Meredith Binder), her false veneer of youthful beauty reinforced by a magic mirror’s flattering (if also caustic) topless female spirits, and sustained via grisly methods seemingly inspired by Elizabeth Bathory.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
2 May 2025
Noun
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Disney is taking another step into the YA space with its newest series pickup. Disney+ and Disney Channel have greenlit Coven Academy, a dramedy about a group of young witches in New Orleans.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Aug. 2025
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The bright green appearance conjures images of everyone’s favorite acid-tone wicked witch.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Crone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crone. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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