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dramedy

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Recent Examples of dramedy But after three seasons and 34 episodes, the soccer dramedy left the field. — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026 The jukebox musical dramedy won six Emmy Awards and four Golden Globes throughout its run from 2009 to 2015. — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026 Pride, initially daunted by the project's legacy, aims to honor the original's warmth while evolving it into a modern dramedy for new generations. — Dominique Fluker, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 Still, even as multiple locations and villains pile up, the bond between Agency handler Sam and tech phenom Queenie (Savannah Steyn) keeps the dramedy from imploding. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for dramedy

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Former Saturday Night Live writer/performer John Higgins, member of the Please Don’t Destroy comedy group, has joined the cast of ABC’s Scrubs for a major recurring role in the upcoming second season of the revival, Deadline has learned.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2026
That uncertainty extends to the film itself, which slips between psychological drama, comedy and magical realism without settling comfortably into any of them.

— Callum McLennan, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of comedy

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Carys made her professional stage debut in June, playing Nina in Anton Chekhov’s tragicomedy The Seagull in Brooklyn.

— Adam England, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026
That’s what appears to be the case with Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who first met in 1992 on the set of romantic tragicomedy Jamón Jamón.

— Alessandra De Tommasi, Vanity Fair, 5 July 2026

Definition of tragicomedy

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Inspired by the transient beauty of cherry blossoms, known in Japan as sakura — which is illustrated in their album cover, alongside a dark pegasus — much of the LP also hinges on melodrama.

— Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2026
The show is not yet as fine-tuned as its predecessor; some dialogue could use less theatrical melodrama and characterizations could be tightened, but staging is stellar.

— Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of melodrama

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Netflix has announced several updates in their YA slate throughout the week, including casting information for the upcoming hockey drama The Sticks, the trailer for the rowing-centric Crew Girl, more details on the psychodrama The Body and more.

— Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2026
Early loves his creation, enough to spin an entire psychodrama around her, one that will bring her high and low.

— Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026

Definition of psychodrama

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This rebellious new musical is about growing up, discovering yourself, and refusing to live by others’ expectations.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026
The upcoming musical is based on the cult classic 1999 romcom of the same name, which takes Shakespeare’s famous play The Taming of the Shrew and drops its characters straight into a California high school.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of musical

Noun

At first, its plea to remain somewhere in an old lover’s life can feel like the whole tragedy.

— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026
Boeing has admitted fault in these tragedies, attributing the cause of the crashes to a flawed Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS).

— Erin Jensen, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of tragedy

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Blackman first starred opposite Presley in the rock ‘n’ roll musical comedy Blue Hawaii in 1961.

— Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Jesse Eisenberg’s musical comedy The Debut, starring Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti, has been announced as the closing film of the BFI London Film Festival in October.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of musical comedy

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