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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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His fingerprints are all over the 21st-century Big Inventive Novel, with its sentient raindrops (Elif Shafak), its melodramatic families (Kiran Desai), its metamorphoses of race (Mohsin Hamid) and history (Marlon James).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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There are elements of quite graphic violence, then there’s also quite melodramatic moments, and then there’s also quite funny moments, and then there’s obviously the games themselves.—
Abid Rahman,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Stacking them in a sink full of warm, soapy water seems the easiest solution.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
6 Nov. 2025
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In one of her more soapy, theatrical moments, Janssen's Betty arrives by boat to the Amsterdam Music Awards to upend a big work moment for her ex's new lover.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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 16 Nov. 2025.
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