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Recent Examples of soap opera
After three years on the popular soap opera, the 34-year-old actress revealed her time as Summer Newman will be coming to an end this week.
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Liza Esquibias, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Here was a woman whose life read like something out of a soap opera.
—Hazlitt, 30 Apr. 2025
The 36th movie in this ongoing, omnipresent pop soap opera is wildly uneven.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2025
The soap opera aired between 1979 and 1993 and starred Michelle Phillips, Michele Lee, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Ted Shackelford, Kevin Dobson and more.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
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Liza Esquibias, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Here was a woman whose life read like something out of a soap opera.
—Hazlitt, 30 Apr. 2025
The 36th movie in this ongoing, omnipresent pop soap opera is wildly uneven.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2025
The soap opera aired between 1979 and 1993 and starred Michelle Phillips, Michele Lee, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Ted Shackelford, Kevin Dobson and more.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soap opera
Noun
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Family-friendly activities include arts and crafts, video games, physical movement activities, interactive spray paint murals, corn hole and hop-scotch, all along the South Dock.—
Saleema Syed,
Chicago Tribune,
19 May 2025
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Grandma usually trades in her love and care for some choice chores, including help with shucking fresh corn for creamed corn or buttery sauteed corn.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
17 May 2025
Noun
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However, trade classification is not the only contributor to trade sludge.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Pacific Palisades experienced a major intersection submerged in three feet of sludge, and roads near the Eaton Fire burn scar were overtaken by several feet of mud, trees, and vegetation.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Baijiu is the world’s most popular liquor by volume, most commonly distilled from sorghum, but also from rice, wheat, corn and millet.—
Claudia Alarcón,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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If your current diet is low in whole grains, try experimenting with different sources, like quinoa, teff, sorghum, buckwheat, and barley.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Soap opera.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soap%20opera. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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