zombies

noun

plural of zombie
as in vampires

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Recent Examples of zombies There’s something reassuring, if also terrible, about the inexhaustibility of zombies, and of content, and of zombie content. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
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  1. vampires
  2. ghouls
Noun
  • Sharpless says, in the West, sleep paralysis overlapped with stories about vampires, witches, and ghosts.
    — RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The Atlas Group primed viewers to read his documents as unstable, but the later work asks them to contend with shrunken objects, resurrected paintings, and vampires lurking in the archive.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of vampires
Noun
  • Throughout outer space lie stars and galaxies that resemble creepy creatures, spooky skulls and galactic ghouls.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2026
  • Humanoid moths and demon babies, hitchhiking ghouls, the occasional sea monster and even a suspicious phantom kangaroo or two.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of ghouls

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