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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.
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Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for zombies
Noun
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Early slayers often originate between realms—people who have been near death and pulled back, or have the markings of potential vampires, or who are born at times of the year when the veil between worlds is thin.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Some vampires want a piece of the action.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Its lead character is Harry Dresden, a professional wizard operating out of the city of Chicago in a world where ghouls, ghosts, werewolves and vampires exist in the shadows of modern society.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
21 Jan. 2026
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No disrespect to Purnell, who perfectly calibrated Lucy’s intrinsic hopefulness in the first season and slowly begins to curdle it this go-round as Lucy spends more time among ghouls, raiders, cannibals, and various other feuding factions.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 Dec. 2025
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“Zombies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zombies. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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