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Recent Examples of soap opera
Baseball beauty and a maddening soap opera not even worth an attempt at summarizing.
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Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Crystalline skyscrapers and cowboy hats abound in the city known for cattle drives, cheerleaders, and oil family soap operas.
—Nathanael Gassett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Two years after his death at age 84, the longtime Los Angeles estate of prime-time soap opera writer and producer David Jacobs is now on the market in the Beachwood Canyon neighborhood of Hollywood Hills for just under $6 million after it was initially priced at $7 million.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 19 Sep. 2025
Like many disaster movies, this is a turgid soap opera that’s blown apart by chaos.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
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Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Crystalline skyscrapers and cowboy hats abound in the city known for cattle drives, cheerleaders, and oil family soap operas.
—Nathanael Gassett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Two years after his death at age 84, the longtime Los Angeles estate of prime-time soap opera writer and producer David Jacobs is now on the market in the Beachwood Canyon neighborhood of Hollywood Hills for just under $6 million after it was initially priced at $7 million.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 19 Sep. 2025
Like many disaster movies, this is a turgid soap opera that’s blown apart by chaos.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soap opera
Noun
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In Tennessee, candy corn proved popular as well.—
Diana Leyva,
Nashville Tennessean,
17 Oct. 2025
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Summer, nature’s wedding and harvest time for lentils, sesame, and corn.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Filth Flies Little filth flies such as drain flies breed in sludge and decaying matter that can build up in drain pipes, says Oi.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
10 Oct. 2025
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It's used to empty the machine of the ice and sludge scraped from the skating surface.—
John Wisely,
Freep.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Soap opera.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soap%20opera. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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