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Recent Examples of soap opera
Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom is a soap opera about a hospital where the doctors aren’t good-looking or vibrating with noble sentiment but generally corrupt or insane.
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Adam Thirlwell, The New York Review of Books, 20 Mar. 2025
That led to an embarrassing soap opera for everyone involved.
—Michael Lewis, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Comedian Judy Gold, soap opera great Susan Lucci and Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins deliver the monologues with gusto in the show through March 23.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
Families are often tangled webs on daytime soap operas.
—Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Adam Thirlwell, The New York Review of Books, 20 Mar. 2025
That led to an embarrassing soap opera for everyone involved.
—Michael Lewis, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Comedian Judy Gold, soap opera great Susan Lucci and Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins deliver the monologues with gusto in the show through March 23.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
Families are often tangled webs on daytime soap operas.
—Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soap opera
Noun
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China has responded swiftly to Trump’s tariffs, imposing 15% duties on chicken, wheat, corn and cotton imports from the US.—
Olesya Dmitracova,
CNN Money,
1 Apr. 2025
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China responded with 15% duties on American chicken, wheat, corn and cotton imports.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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More than a billion gallons of coal ash slurry breached a containment pond, inundating 300 acres with toxic sludge and contaminating nearby waterways.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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Only the Greater Los Angeles area distributed more sludge to farmers during the same period.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Cover crops like millet, sorghum, and black-eyed peas have been successful at the botanic gardens.—
Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Kristian Thacker,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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From ramps plucked from the earth in springtime to sorghum squeezed in the fall, its unique culinary identity has been a source of pride and tourism dollars.—
Hanna Raskin,
Southern Living,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Soap opera.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soap%20opera. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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