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Recent Examples of hades
In the 1997 film, it's revealed that Meg sold her soul to Hades to save her boyfriend, who eventually left her for another woman.
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Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
The seeds seal Persephone’s fate as one who must spend part of every year with Hades among the dead.
—Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
Using gifts from the gods—Athena's polished shield, Hermes' winged sandals, Hades' helm of invisibility, and a sword—Perseus beheaded Medusa and later used her head as a weapon.
—Amanda Castro
hannah Parry
anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Epstein himself, competing from Hades, placed third (9.5 percent).
—George Kalogerakis, Air Mail, 9 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
The seeds seal Persephone’s fate as one who must spend part of every year with Hades among the dead.
—Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
Using gifts from the gods—Athena's polished shield, Hermes' winged sandals, Hades' helm of invisibility, and a sword—Perseus beheaded Medusa and later used her head as a weapon.
—Amanda Castro
hannah Parry
anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Epstein himself, competing from Hades, placed third (9.5 percent).
—George Kalogerakis, Air Mail, 9 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hades
Noun
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After years of staying ahead of the law and navigating the complex alliances of the city’s underworld, Polly had closed shop and decided to try her hand at writing.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, a deviant killer operating in the yakuza underworld seems to be shadowing their moves.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
1 Jan. 2026
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 other two-thirds are on a scale of anxiously hopeful to beyond desperate -- an amorphous netherworld of doubt that, yes, includes the Miami Dolphins with Tua Tagovailoa, or should.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But the inferno nevertheless destroyed the homes of his son and daughter, who are 26 and 29.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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The Los Angeles Fire Department made the decision to physically move the command post down Pacific Coast Highway and away from the Palisades because the inferno threatened to overtake their location.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Turns out the Knicks didn’t need more Brunson to free themselves from their place in basketball purgatory.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Sátántangó’s desolate landscapes, dominated by mud, wind, and overcast skies, summoned a vision of earthly purgatory unrivaled in almost all of cinema.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The soul is the same one that ancient Egyptians called the ka, or that God promises the psalmist will be rescued from Sheol, or that lay dormant in the minds of so many contemporary American readers, waiting for the right sound to set it free.—
Christian Wiman,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Aug. 2024
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“Hades.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hades. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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