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as in glowing
having a healthy reddish skin tone
the merry, red, smiling face of Santa Claus
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as in boiling
having a notably high temperature
the streams of red lava were especially spectacular at night
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as in rebel
a person who rises up against authority
the reds demanded a violent overthrow of the government
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as in communist
capitalized
an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
the story of John Reed, the only American Red buried within the Kremlin
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Recent Examples of red
Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2023
Keep reading for 9 trends seen on the runways and red carpets that everyone will be adopting soon.
—Sarah Boyd, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
Alex Portée, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2025
Nolen: The alabaster brow, the little dots of red in your cheek.
—Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for Your Place or Mine, Knock at the Cabin, 80 for Brady and the kickoff of Grammy weekend events.
—Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2023
Keep reading for 9 trends seen on the runways and red carpets that everyone will be adopting soon.
—Sarah Boyd, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
Noun
Alston’s photograph shows White in the later part of her career, wearing red, eyes bright with her signature spark.
—Alex Portée, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2025
Nolen: The alabaster brow, the little dots of red in your cheek.
—Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red
Adjective
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Meghan Markle's Netflix Backlash Meghan's Netflix show earned scornful reviews not only in the British press, long the villains of Meghan and Prince Harry's narrative, but also among U.S. outlets that previously provided glowing coverage.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
25 Mar. 2025
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Firefly's Blue Ghost spacecraft — which landed in the Sea of Crises on March 2 — took some spectacular images of a total solar eclipse (a total eclipse of the sun by Earth) as both a diamond ring and a glowing red ring of sunlight.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Scientific American,
3 Mar. 2020
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If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Dec. 2019
Noun
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Ooh, rendezvous with the hot rebel in the forest! 50.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
21 Mar. 2025
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Aiding the princess is a band of rebels led by the dashing Jonathan (Tony winner Andrew Burnap).—
Patrick Gomez,
EW.com,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In the late 1940s and 1950s, Sen. Joseph McCarthy unleashed a political witch hunt to root out US college professors labeled as communists.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
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The statement also employed a common far-right misrepresentation of Hitler, who in fact privatized much of the government, outlawed labor unions and ordered the killing of hundreds of thousands of people presumed to be socialists and communists.—
Carlo Angerer,
NBC News,
9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The main topic of conversation was how the duo turned a photo album featuring the banal daily activities of workers at Auschwitz-Birkenau into a searing play.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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Every actor’s Hamlet is theirs and theirs alone, and Olivier’s is big and hammy and searing and often quite devastating.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The sniper gun is peering through an eight-inch-wide hole blasted into the wall, and the insurgents, having figured out that the Americans are in there, toss a grenade through the hole.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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Warfare plots, in real time, a surveillance mission in Ramadi gone awry when nearby Al Qaeda insurgents detonate a series of IEDs outside a housing building which the team has taken over.—
Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Lavin’s death is a particularly emotional loss given the heartfelt nature of the sitcom, which follows three longtime friends who decide to move in together after the death of their fourth comrade.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
28 Mar. 2025
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One of his comrades, Elliot (Cosmo Jarvis), was badly wounded.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The blood moon is a trick of the light, when the typical whitish looking moon becomes red or ruddy brown.—
Doyle Rice,
USA TODAY,
10 Mar. 2025
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Earth is backlit by the sun during a lunar eclipse, so all the sunlight falling on the lunar surface is passing through the thickest part of our atmosphere, bathing the moon in a ruddy glow.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Red.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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