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Recent Examples of soap-operatic
Coming into this season, the natural question is whether this cast can achieve the same soap-operatic appeal.
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Laura Bradley, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
Laura Bradley, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soap-operatic
Adjective
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My mother was two parents in one, both male (decisive and withholding) and female (melodramatic and fanciful) at the same time.—
Han Ong,
New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2026
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But many of Hoover’s fans outright rejected it for glossing over gritty details like the family struggling with finances for full focus on the teenage love story, posting viral videos of audiences laughing at melodramatic scenes in the theater.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
13 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Wash the carafe and filter basket with warm, soapy water before using the machine again.—
Louise Parks,
Martha Stewart,
16 Mar. 2026
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Wipe The Microwave Clean Use a cloth dampened with warm, soapy water to clean the underside of your microwave.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
15 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Scrub the day away with this gentle sudsy soap, which comes in multiple scents (including fragrance free) and sizes, and is great even as the kids grow.—
Alex Apatoff,
People.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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From an axe to a sudsy bar of soap, the thing that appears on each cover is drawn from a story, poem, or essay in the issue and could be recognizable anywhere.—
Kei Lim
June 9,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2025
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“Soap-operatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soap-operatic. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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