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Recent Examples of vamp
Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
Or will Peter Parker team up with a certain daywalker and start slaying vamps?
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 15 June 2024
McCarthy vamps it up as the conniving Ursula, going big but not too big — the one special effect that escapes the rest of the film’s soulless spectacle.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 May 2024
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Noun
With the aid of avant-pop producer Justin Raisen, Gordon’s unsettling speech fragments—that vamp on the relentless nature of technology and consumerism—float just above a froth of trap beats and industrial clamor.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
Or will Peter Parker team up with a certain daywalker and start slaying vamps?
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
Verb
In the livestream, which garnered hundreds of thousands of viewers, Gill vamped for about an hour against the backdrop of GameStop’s violently fluctuating share price.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 15 June 2024
McCarthy vamps it up as the conniving Ursula, going big but not too big — the one special effect that escapes the rest of the film’s soulless spectacle.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vamp
Noun
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Swim Week solidified the coquette swim trend as one to watch for the next couple of summers.—
Victoria Montalti,
refinery29.com,
4 June 2024
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The coquette trend is here to stay, according to Taylor Swift.—
Hannah Malach,
WWD,
3 Sep. 2019
Verb
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Many folks ribbed the hard partying PGA great about his unhealthy lifestyle and eating habits.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
18 Jan. 2025
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And LaMelo surely will rib Lonzo about getting past Lonzo for a key drive to the bucket in the final minutes, drawing a foul on big brother, and also playing solid defense on Lonzo during a potential game-tying 3-pointer in the closing seconds.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Not only did diners want to enjoy her singing in the cabaret, no doubt many could not resist coming to see for themselves the soubrette who had inspired such fury in the late George VI.—
Olivia Williams,
Town & Country,
1 June 2021
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That show featured a song called 'The Yama Yama Man,’ in which chorus girls cavorted in Yama Yama suits while a soubrette sang about the creepy Yama Yama Man.—
Bulletin Board,
Twin Cities,
5 Feb. 2017
Verb
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Activision teases five new multiplayer maps being added to Black Ops 6 in the upcoming season, with two of them coming a few weeks after the update.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
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Though Evans comforted Bunny in person, Hot Ones made sure to tease him a little bit in post-production.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
23 Jan. 2025
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Catherine is a tease, a seductress — a teenager’s wet dream and a mother’s worst nightmare.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
22 Oct. 2024
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The problem is that she’s cast herself in the part of a 16-year-old seductress.—
Kathryn Vandervalk,
EW.com,
21 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Pepe the King Prawn is a Spanish Muppet with four arms, orange skin and straggly hair; the character is known for being an outrageous flirt, and being offended when people refer to him as a shrimp.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
22 Dec. 2024
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In one scene, Walker watches as Choppa flirts with a woman during her own photoshoot.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
23 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Reid wasn’t kidding, because ice can be a bear to remove.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
9 Jan. 2025
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There is a sense that, while nobody is kidding themselves that all of those players aren’t there for the money, Neymar hasn’t bought into the Saudi project — publicly at least — as much as others.—
Nick Miller,
The Athletic,
6 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Ash and embers were seen raining down from the sky and sirens were heard wailing as Jeffrey and Cheryll dashed in and out of their home with personal items.—
Abigail Adams,
People.com,
14 Jan. 2025
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Shot said attack sirens were sounded at the refinery.—
Reuters,
CNN,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Vamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vamp. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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