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also zombi
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Recent Examples of zombie
In theaters What do dinosaurs and zombies have in common?
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Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 29 June 2025
The reason behind Relay 2’s sudden burst is not clear, but the team has come up with two potential explanations—and neither involves the satellite coming back to life like a zombie.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
Murphy was spotted running away from zombies last September, so there’s a good chance Jim’s back for more in Bone Temple.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 24 June 2025
But once the group noticed that Ginny had already died and turned to a zombie, Maggie could not finish the job, and instead handed her knife to Negan to finish off the young girl.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 June 2025
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Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 29 June 2025
The reason behind Relay 2’s sudden burst is not clear, but the team has come up with two potential explanations—and neither involves the satellite coming back to life like a zombie.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
Murphy was spotted running away from zombies last September, so there’s a good chance Jim’s back for more in Bone Temple.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 24 June 2025
But once the group noticed that Ginny had already died and turned to a zombie, Maggie could not finish the job, and instead handed her knife to Negan to finish off the young girl.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zombie
Noun
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In that way, Broken Voices is about the circumstances that allow abuse to happen; Vitek is like a vampire, a cold and distant creature capable of great charm, and Karolina, in all her disarming naivety, is easy prey.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
10 July 2025
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So far, the answer seems to be blues-loving vampires, a cuddly alien and a life-sized block world.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
8 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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Brown and Kountz play Luna and Marvin, a couple who moves to Evergreen Lane with a passion for goblins and ghouls that inspires the whole neighborhood to go all in.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 June 2025
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While the cars are moving in two dimensions to the fighter jets’ three, Kosinski makes the races feel truly physical—not just on the turns and straights, but in the frenetic pit stops and in the viewing suites stuffed with sheikhs and tech ghouls.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
20 June 2025
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“Zombie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zombie. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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