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Recent Examples of soap opera
Need to give your brain the night off and watch a soap opera about a desperate, dysfunctional and good-looking fishing family in North Carolina?
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 20 June 2025
She also was involved with another primetime soap opera, Daughters of Eve, that was to star Sophia Loren in 1995.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 14 June 2025
Roberts also directed a play Betts wrote, Screen Test: Take One, about a soap opera that originated on a film set.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 20 June 2025
But the road to telling that story began with a restless boy in a quiet town, one who found escape not on the water, but in the light of screens both big and small, captivated by Steven Spielberg’s work and the classic soap opera Guiding Light.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 19 June 2025
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 20 June 2025
She also was involved with another primetime soap opera, Daughters of Eve, that was to star Sophia Loren in 1995.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 14 June 2025
Roberts also directed a play Betts wrote, Screen Test: Take One, about a soap opera that originated on a film set.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 20 June 2025
But the road to telling that story began with a restless boy in a quiet town, one who found escape not on the water, but in the light of screens both big and small, captivated by Steven Spielberg’s work and the classic soap opera Guiding Light.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 19 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soap opera
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The whiskey’s mash bill consists of 70% corn, 20% wheat, and 10% barley.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025
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The brisket is finished with a chile morita salsa that is also found on a veggie explosion of squash, corn, peppers and onions.—
Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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Using more sludge and less slag in their recipe, researchers were able to create a material that's stronger than even today's enhanced cements and highly resistant to corrosion by acid.—
Michael Franco,
New Atlas,
9 June 2025
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The film careens between a dreary sludge of despair and eventual heart-palpitating nightmare, Grace caught in a mercurial storm of her own moods without ballast and unable to be understood by those around her.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
17 May 2025
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“Soap opera.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soap%20opera. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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