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Recent Examples of hades
In the Greek myth, musician Orpheus loses wife Eurydice to a snake bite and travels to the underworld to plead with Hades for her return.
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2025
The fictional Night Raven College serves as a training ground for aspiring sorcerers, with dormitories themed around villainous icons like the Queen of Hearts, Scar, Ursula, Jafar, the Evil Queen, Hades and Maleficent.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
Riordan also announced, via a pre-taped video, that demigods Nico di Angelo and his sister Bianca, children of Hades, will be played in Season 3 by child actor Levi Chrisopulos and Olive Abercrombie (Mayfair Witches, Outer Range).
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 24 July 2025
Percy immediately returns the Helm to Hades, and decides to take the Bolt straight to Olympus himself — which is on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building.
—EW.com, 22 July 2025
Most importantly, the songs were catchy and moving, from Hades’ bassy crooning to Orpheus’ haunting boy voice.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 16 July 2025
That’s popular roguelike Hades, which first became popular on PC and Nintendo Switch before being released on iPhone and iPad exclusively through Netflix.
—James Peckham, PC Magazine, 24 June 2025
The strongest scenes belong to those featuring the dashingly droll antagonist Hades.
—David Benedict, Variety, 24 June 2025
In the Greek succession myth, the Titans overthrew their father, Uranus, and Zeus in turn overthrew the Titans, confining them to the bronze-walled prison of Tartarus, that black and stormy pit that lies lower even than the depths of Hades.
—Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2025
The fictional Night Raven College serves as a training ground for aspiring sorcerers, with dormitories themed around villainous icons like the Queen of Hearts, Scar, Ursula, Jafar, the Evil Queen, Hades and Maleficent.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
Riordan also announced, via a pre-taped video, that demigods Nico di Angelo and his sister Bianca, children of Hades, will be played in Season 3 by child actor Levi Chrisopulos and Olive Abercrombie (Mayfair Witches, Outer Range).
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 24 July 2025
Percy immediately returns the Helm to Hades, and decides to take the Bolt straight to Olympus himself — which is on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building.
—EW.com, 22 July 2025
Most importantly, the songs were catchy and moving, from Hades’ bassy crooning to Orpheus’ haunting boy voice.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 16 July 2025
That’s popular roguelike Hades, which first became popular on PC and Nintendo Switch before being released on iPhone and iPad exclusively through Netflix.
—James Peckham, PC Magazine, 24 June 2025
The strongest scenes belong to those featuring the dashingly droll antagonist Hades.
—David Benedict, Variety, 24 June 2025
In the Greek succession myth, the Titans overthrew their father, Uranus, and Zeus in turn overthrew the Titans, confining them to the bronze-walled prison of Tartarus, that black and stormy pit that lies lower even than the depths of Hades.
—Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hades
Noun
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With the exception of one strange, teasingly surreal scene, which conjures the feel of a yakuza thriller set somewhere between a criminal underworld and a metaphysical overworld, Kurosawa sidesteps any hint of the supernatural.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
17 July 2025
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But the story tells how Sedna came to rule over the Inuit underworld.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
6 July 2025
Noun
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Nicole finds herself in an all too familiar place for those who have experienced the early phase of young-onset neurological disease, a netherworld between acceptance and denial.—
Gus Alexiou,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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The twin netherworlds—named after the mythical Greek god of the underworld and the pilot who shuttled souls across the river Styx—circle more than five billion kilometers distant from the sun, along an orbit that Stern’s Pluto expedition took nine years to reach.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
Noun
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Taylor Swift poured tanks of gasoline on social media, struck a match and lit the internet in an inferno of excitement.—
Bryan West,
The Tennessean,
13 Aug. 2025
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It is not yet known whether the person died in the inferno or drowned.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
20 July 2025
Noun
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But for solo travelers, the back of the plane can feel like purgatory.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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So, how are members supposed to react to the spin purgatory?—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
1 May 2025
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“Hades.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hades. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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