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Recent Examples of gorgonThe original premise follows Frankenstein’s monster teaming up with a werewolf, vampire and gorgon to fight Nazis in World War II.—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
For those guys, mothers are either harpies or sirens—villains or traps.
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Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
2 May 2024
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.
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.
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Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 June 2025
The music hall performer Belle Elmore was dismissed by the press as a vulgar shrew.
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).
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Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
However, Hernandez continued to pursue her despite knowing that the former video vixen is heterosexual.
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.
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Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
25 Aug. 2023
Meredith is a stereotypical virago updated with modern libertarian notions.
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