as in suspenser
something (as a close contest) that induces much suspense as to its outcome
those television awards are hardly thrillers since the same people win year after year
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Recent Examples of thriller
Severance star Zach Cherry hit the Deadline Studio at SXSW London this week with director Jason James to discuss genre-mashing romcom-thriller-noir All Night Wrong which premiered at the festival.
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 June 2026
The first title out of the gate will be Pressure, a thriller directed by Anthony Maras (Hotel Mumbai) and starring Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser and Kerry Condon.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
If anything, its biggest achievement may be that despite the baggage that comes with continuing Mobile Suit Gundam’s original story, or perhaps because of it, Nymph Circe totally rips, both as a modern political thriller and as a Gundam story.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 19 May 2026
Take a look Spurs down Thunder in 2OT thriller
The Western Conference finals was the showdown the entire NBA world wanted: Victor Wembanyama led the Spurs to a 122-115 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder in double overtime with an epic peformance in the Game 1 thriller.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 19 May 2026
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 June 2026
The first title out of the gate will be Pressure, a thriller directed by Anthony Maras (Hotel Mumbai) and starring Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser and Kerry Condon.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
If anything, its biggest achievement may be that despite the baggage that comes with continuing Mobile Suit Gundam’s original story, or perhaps because of it, Nymph Circe totally rips, both as a modern political thriller and as a Gundam story.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 19 May 2026
Take a look Spurs down Thunder in 2OT thriller
The Western Conference finals was the showdown the entire NBA world wanted: Victor Wembanyama led the Spurs to a 122-115 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder in double overtime with an epic peformance in the Game 1 thriller.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 19 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thriller
suspenser
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Directed by Nelicia Low, the suspenser follows a young fencer struggling with keeping his secret crush on a fellow fencer from his homophobic mother.—
Vivienne Chow,
Variety,
17 May 2022
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On the other hand, the story introduces fictional characters and elements that give it the air of a suspenser, exactly the sort for which Harris is so popular.—
Frank Scheck,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Jan. 2022
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“Thriller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thriller. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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