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Recent Examples of hagSeveral get small charts offering ideas to inspire how the monster could be used, such as what strange price a hag might have for its secrets or what an owlbear might keep in its den beyond treasure.—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025 This is indicative of someone who puts men at the center of their universe, viewing other women as either competition or jealous hags.—Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2025 Several get small charts offering ideas to inspire how the monster could be used, such as what strange price a hag might have for its secrets or what an owlbear might keep in its den beyond treasure.—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025 The film treats Ryder’s Beth as the evil hag witch who the virginal hard worker Nina has to beat to achieve her dreams, and Ryder plays that role with relish and gusto.—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024 Oh, and Jen is also there, dressed as the hag form of the Evil Queen from Snow White.—Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024 Goth did double duty in X, playing both Maxine, the adult-film director’s girlfriend and star, and homicidal hag Pearl.—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024 Its narrator was Constance Garnett, the real-life translator of Russian classics, reimagined as a senile, spotlight-stealing hag.—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024 The Furies of ancient Greece and Rome were also divine, a trio of miserable hags with snakes for hair.—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
As the five soon discover, there’s a seemingly endless array of things that want to kill them, from witches and wendigos to parasitic worms and a kaiju-sized monster in the woods.
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Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
25 Apr. 2025
There are cybernetic monstrosities like Darth Vader and General Grievous and witches like the Nightsisters.
The researchers went through hundreds of rodent and shrew carcasses to look for mpox infections and found one: the carcass of a squirrel that had died less than three months before the outbreak started.
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Lillian Ali,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Apr. 2025
While native mammals span from the endemic Cretan lesser white-toothed shrew to the Blasius’s horseshoe bat, the preserve is perhaps best known for its high concentration of Cretan goats, a type of ruminant that serves as the official mascot of the park.
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