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Recent Examples of horror show
New York Jets 21, Houston Texans 13 (Thursday): A Jets season that had been a horror show so far turned into a treat for New York fans on Halloween night.
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Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
The first few months would be a horror show of immigrant families being torn apart and deported.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
Now, with streaming, TV horror shows can be just as creepy and scary as their movie brethren.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
And the accompanying video, directed by Silken Weinberg, is a total horror show.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2024
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Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
The first few months would be a horror show of immigrant families being torn apart and deported.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
Now, with streaming, TV horror shows can be just as creepy and scary as their movie brethren.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
And the accompanying video, directed by Silken Weinberg, is a total horror show.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for horror show
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Sarah Boone, 47, was found guilty of second-degree murder in October.Zoe Sottile, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
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Christopher Leroy Collings, 49, is set to die by lethal injection for the murder of 9-year-old Rowan Ford in the tiny southwestern Missouri village of Stella on Nov. 3, 2007.Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2024
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By Harriet Marsden, The Week UK published 18 September 2024 A cricketing powerhouse for decades, Pakistan's national team have suddenly found themselves on a sticky wicket.Harriet Marsden, theweek, 18 Sep. 2024
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Much of its lexicon sounds both unapproachable and, well, just weird: sticky wicket, googly, yorker, jaffa, daisy cutter, silly mid off, maiden over, tickle, nurdle, trundler, paddle scoop, popping crease, golden duck.Chris Heath, The Atlantic, 25 July 2024
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Concussion symptoms include confusion, drowsiness, nausea, and headache.Ann Pietrangelo, Verywell Health, 30 Nov. 2024
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Short-term symptoms of lead poisoning include headaches, abdominal pain, colic, vomiting and anemia.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
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For instance, of 10 bears observed interacting with vehicle barriers, eight crossed successfully.Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
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At Green Angels Landscaping, visitors can stop by on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays for a drive-thru display of lights and decor complete with large nutcrackers, a tunnel of lights for children to run through, a polar train village and a town of holiday bears.Kiersten Hacker, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024
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Amazon's Black Friday 2024 sale has some killer headphones and earbuds on sale, including the Apple AirPods Pro 2 for the lowest price ever.Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
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Working from a script by Scott Silver, Phillips hedges his bet by recycling: Joaquin Phoenix refines his Oscar-winning turn as psychotic urban vigilante/revenge killer Arthur Fleck, this time revealing his insanity through pop songs.Armond White, National Review, 29 Nov. 2024
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And these chocolate bars aren’t a chore to eat — their six unique flavors are genuinely tasty.Lydia Kariuki, The Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2024
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This year, don’t settle for resolutions that feel like chores.Nirit Cohen, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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The two countries approved a new trade deal with Canada, known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), that even some free-market advocates saw as an improvement on its predecessor NAFTA due to its enhanced protections for intellectual property and labor rights.Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
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With a serious labor shortage and the growing IT skills gap impacting industries and regions across the globe, companies must get creative about finding new talent.Allie Danziger, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Right as romantic comedies were curdling at the box office, Adams made one of the genre’s all-time stinkers.Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
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Even with a giant stinker in the playoffs, given his performance and looming cap hit, an extension for Prescott felt inevitable.Saad Yousuf, The Athletic, 23 Aug. 2024
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“Horror show.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horror%20show. Accessed 14 Dec. 2024.
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