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Recent Examples of zombie
Participants for the public performance are encouraged to wear Halloween costumes, especially those with a zombie theme.
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Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2025
Pugsley and his new friend Eugene (Moosa Mostafa) get into plenty of trouble when Pugsley inadvertently raises a zombie from the dead.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Is creating a zombie by electrocuting the ground beneath a haunted tree the solution to the male loneliness epidemic??
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
The American Eagle campaign, its presentation of Americana as a zombie slop of mustangs, denim, and good genes, is lowest-common-denominator stuff.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2025
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Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2025
Pugsley and his new friend Eugene (Moosa Mostafa) get into plenty of trouble when Pugsley inadvertently raises a zombie from the dead.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Is creating a zombie by electrocuting the ground beneath a haunted tree the solution to the male loneliness epidemic??
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
The American Eagle campaign, its presentation of Americana as a zombie slop of mustangs, denim, and good genes, is lowest-common-denominator stuff.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zombie
Noun
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In Memoriam looks at these vampires and how they’ve been thrust into the limelight due to the Gehenna War.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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The temporary crowns did look oddly artificial—like the plastic vampire teeth that children wear, except more elegant.—
Burkhard Bilger,
New Yorker,
28 July 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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There are a lot of stock viewer-goosings: Screaming ghoul faces, crawling insects, waking nightmares and other jump scares, including the sonic kind of sudden loud noises or silences.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
6 Aug. 2025
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The mushroom’s healing properties also lead to hallucinations, often involving mysterious white imps, who should be adorable and instead come across as menacing little ghouls.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 2025
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“Zombie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zombie. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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