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Recent Examples of gorgon
The original premise follows Frankenstein’s monster teaming up with a werewolf, vampire and gorgon to fight Nazis in World War II.
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Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 26 July 2024
Those themes are evident in the salon decorated with giant nautilus shells, gorgons of the sea and other old nautical items.
—Chloe Braithwaite, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2024
The East Coast socialites Capote fawns over are lacquered gorgons (for whom the show occasionally sheds crocodile tears, as in the case of Paley’s cancer diagnosis); the Hollywood crowd that takes him in is tasteless lightweights.
—Mike Hale, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
Playwright Kenny Hahn delves into the human side of the famous gorgon.
—John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2023
Instead of an evil monster, Haynes’s Medusa is a beloved gorgon sister with a keen intellect and a curiosity about the human world.
—Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
The premise features Frankenstein’s monster teaming up with a werewolf, a vampire and a gorgon to fight Nazis in World War II.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 31 Jan. 2023
Georgie Farmer plays Ajax, a gorgon who can turn people into stone.
—Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 1 Dec. 2022
Kennedy will guest star as Medusa, the infamous gorgon.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 13 Oct. 2022
Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 26 July 2024
Those themes are evident in the salon decorated with giant nautilus shells, gorgons of the sea and other old nautical items.
—Chloe Braithwaite, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2024
The East Coast socialites Capote fawns over are lacquered gorgons (for whom the show occasionally sheds crocodile tears, as in the case of Paley’s cancer diagnosis); the Hollywood crowd that takes him in is tasteless lightweights.
—Mike Hale, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
Playwright Kenny Hahn delves into the human side of the famous gorgon.
—John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2023
Instead of an evil monster, Haynes’s Medusa is a beloved gorgon sister with a keen intellect and a curiosity about the human world.
—Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
The premise features Frankenstein’s monster teaming up with a werewolf, a vampire and a gorgon to fight Nazis in World War II.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 31 Jan. 2023
Georgie Farmer plays Ajax, a gorgon who can turn people into stone.
—Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 1 Dec. 2022
Kennedy will guest star as Medusa, the infamous gorgon.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 13 Oct. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gorgon
Noun
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In addition to Brecht’s typical didacticism, there is a haunting passage for a fishwife whose son died in one of Lucullus’s campaigns.—
Seth Colter Walls,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2020
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An old fishwife sees a lobster try to escape and whacks it back in with her net.—
Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong,
Time,
12 July 2018
Noun
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But the film belongs to Moreno, clearly relishing the chance to play an unapologetic termagant.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
13 Mar. 2022
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Rita may be a bossy termagant, but her adoring Beppe appears to love being whacked around from time to time, so what’s the harm?—
John Von Rhein,
chicagotribune.com,
15 Apr. 2018
Noun
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As written, and as played quite winningly by Siff, Silverman’s Tekla is neither a kitten nor a harridan.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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And Day, with a face of expressive misery and the energy of an imploding firecracker, portrays her as a shrewd fusion of harridan and victim.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
16 Aug. 2024
Noun
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For those guys, mothers are either harpies or sirens—villains or traps.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
2 May 2024
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This is her name for the seventh circle of hell from Dante’s Inferno, where the souls of those who’ve committed suicide become trees, and harpies peck at them for all eternity.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
21 Nov. 2023
Noun
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For the study, researchers looked at 1,376 vertebrate species known to eat some amount of carrion, ranging from tiger sharks and spotted hyenas to cane toads and common shrews.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 June 2025
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The music hall performer Belle Elmore was dismissed by the press as a vulgar shrew.—
Jennifer Wright,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Today’s Wordle Etymology The word vixen comes from Middle English fixen, a southern dialectal form of fox with a feminine suffix -en (similar to how ox → oxen for plural).—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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However, Hernandez continued to pursue her despite knowing that the former video vixen is heterosexual.—
Mya Abraham,
VIBE.com,
3 Sep. 2019
Noun
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Skin is important here, not just its color but its texture as Josephine, for example, goes from elegant sophisticate to sweaty, sunburned, frizzy virago increasingly swollen with pregnancy and angry mosquito bites.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
25 Aug. 2023
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Meredith is a stereotypical virago updated with modern libertarian notions.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
5 July 2023
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“Gorgon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gorgon. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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