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Recent Examples of hellfire
In the final episode, the 171-year-old vampire — who was forever stuck in a 17-year-old’s body — sacrificed himself in order to stop the fictional town of Mystic Falls, Va., from getting destroyed by hellfire.
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Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 14 May 2025
Soon, Happy Hollow is awash in rumors of teenage cults and demonic possession, and where there’s smoke, there may be actual hellfire.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
Two months after the hellfires began in Southern California, each day brings fresh pain.
—Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025
Two months after the hellfires began in Southern California, each day brings fresh pain.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
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Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 14 May 2025
Soon, Happy Hollow is awash in rumors of teenage cults and demonic possession, and where there’s smoke, there may be actual hellfire.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
Two months after the hellfires began in Southern California, each day brings fresh pain.
—Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025
Two months after the hellfires began in Southern California, each day brings fresh pain.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hellfire
Noun
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This time around, earnings and revenue are both expected to decline year-over-year, and the options pits are pricing in a stock move of 10.9%, regardless of direction.—
Schaeffer's Investment Research,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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The agave is roasted in a pit with volcanic stones to give it a smoky flavor, but it’s not femented (the step in the production process that creates alcohol).—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
12 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Mike Birbiglia’s The Good Life, Marc Maron’s Panicked, Cameron Esposito’s Four Pills, and Bill Burr’s Drop Dead Years are all hours of comedy about reckoning with mortality, and each in their own way is a lovely, absurd, painful depiction of someone staring into an abyss and choosing to laugh.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
6 Aug. 2025
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Which is a reminder that inflation is a policy choice, not some long and painful hike back from the proverbial abyss.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
27 July 2025
Noun
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Yet, the measure was promptly shuffled into the House Rules Committee, where it could be buried to perdition.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2025
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Appropriately for a fantasy of perdition suited to this nihilistic century, the logic of eternal punishment remains opaque.—
Elisa Gonzalez,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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If that’s not exactly fire and brimstone coming from Reid, such is the public persona of the fourth-winningest coach in NFL history.—
Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
23 May 2025
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On their way into the T-Mobile Center, many attendees walked past actual fire and brimstone protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
11 May 2025
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With love, with longing, with righteous rage or shameful guilt, on a sacrificial pyre or in the eternal flames of hell: There are so many ways to burn.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
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An original work set in the world of 1950s ping pong culture, the film tells the story of Marty Mauser (Chalamet), a young man with a dream no one respects, who goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Hellfire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hellfire. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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