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Recent Examples of morality play
But the Ring of Honor isn’t about morality plays or personality contests.
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Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
Anti-Zionism rejects compromise, shuns a two-state solution and flattens a complex conflict to a simple morality play.
—Jason Nevarez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2025
What follows is an unexpected morality play surrounding not only the complications of bringing Rajesh’s actions to light, but also Maitri’s unsavory methods that sparked this violent eruption, which rest on her bringing harm to another, equally vulnerable woman.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 17 June 2025
But the set, in which Dylan played the electric guitar and embraced rock ’n’ roll publicly, was more complicated than a morality play pitting backward folk purists against forward-looking rockers.
—Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
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Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
Anti-Zionism rejects compromise, shuns a two-state solution and flattens a complex conflict to a simple morality play.
—Jason Nevarez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2025
What follows is an unexpected morality play surrounding not only the complications of bringing Rajesh’s actions to light, but also Maitri’s unsavory methods that sparked this violent eruption, which rest on her bringing harm to another, equally vulnerable woman.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 17 June 2025
But the set, in which Dylan played the electric guitar and embraced rock ’n’ roll publicly, was more complicated than a morality play pitting backward folk purists against forward-looking rockers.
—Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for morality play
Noun
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The 2024 European Parliament elections strengthened far-right blocs and pushed the centre-right toward diluting elements of the Green Deal, reframing climate rules as sovereignty or competitiveness threats and amplifying cost-of-living and farmer-protest narratives.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The predominant narrative among many springs scientists, advocates and government officials is that rising nitrate levels in springs over the past few decades fuels the growth of excess algae.—
Christopher F. Meindl,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The alligator's name is Fáfnir after Norse mythology.—
Natalie Davies,
Freep.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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Despite the recent popularity of Labubu dolls, the critters — according to POP MART's official website, which sells Labubu and other blind box toys — originated in 2015 thanks to artist Kasing Lung, who created a trio of picture books inspired by Nordic mythology.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
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The real loss, at the altar of a warped vision of masculinity, is courage and skill, sacrificed so that a few good men can go on measuring themselves against their own hollow myth of toughness.—
Arman Khan,
Them.,
3 Oct. 2025
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And, in the process, the trio of ’70s babies punctured the myth that rap is a young man’s sport.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Morality play.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morality%20play. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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