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Recent Examples of zombie
In the game, a chicken jockey is a rare and slightly absurd mob featuring tiny baby zombies (or sometimes a different small hostile creature) riding on the back of full-sized chickens.
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Annabelle Canela, Parents, 28 Apr. 2025
Adam Cox also testified that his sister had told people a zombie was living inside her husband Charles Vallow's body shortly before his death.
—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
And even in shows crawling with the literal undead, neither Glenn nor Joel were killed by a zombie.
—Rebecca Luther, TVLine, 23 Apr. 2025
The zombies wear bracelets to keep them from craving brains, and start attending Seabrook’s high school for humans.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 22 Apr. 2025
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Annabelle Canela, Parents, 28 Apr. 2025
Adam Cox also testified that his sister had told people a zombie was living inside her husband Charles Vallow's body shortly before his death.
—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
And even in shows crawling with the literal undead, neither Glenn nor Joel were killed by a zombie.
—Rebecca Luther, TVLine, 23 Apr. 2025
The zombies wear bracelets to keep them from craving brains, and start attending Seabrook’s high school for humans.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zombie
Noun
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In Coogler’s cinematic and musical world of vampire horror, the Chinese characters are deeply integrated into the Delta’s Black community, dancing alongside Black partygoers.—
Erika Hayasaki,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 May 2025
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The Wicked actress will star as the titular vampire, as well as the 22 other roles, in an adaptation of Dracula set to debut in London’s West End in February 2026, per Deadline.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
13 May 2025
Noun
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Lopez’s Spider Woman gets a bad pixie wig and even more garish goth costuming appropriate for a bewitching, bitchy succubus.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2025
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That includes, but is not limited to...actual humans, DMs, AI bots or succubus demons.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
11 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The Devil’s Museum, a satellite of the main collection, has amassed more than 3,000 depictions of demons, evil spirits and incubus from around the world.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Your fame sits beside you like an incubus, and people are embarrassed and want to leave the room.—
Candace Bushnell,
Vogue,
23 Feb. 2025
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It was filled with hideous props — ghouls and skeletons crafted of balsa wood, wax, and papier-mâché.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
8 Mar. 2025
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The episode continues the momentum with an extended stalker-vision first-person shot, as an unseen person creeps inexorably into an unidentified home at night, eventually revealing the Empire ghoul who tortured our gal Bix Caleen (Adria Arjona) last season.—
Jesse Hassenger,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Zombie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zombie. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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