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also zombi
as in vampire
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Recent Examples of zombie
What about zombie formalism and the recent figuration craze?
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Mar. 2025
An alien spaceship has spiked an immensely popular bubblegum with an interdimensional ectoplasm that turns everyone who chews it into zombies, and the only ones who can save humanity are bickering foster brothers Daffy Duck and Porky Pig (both voiced by Eric Bauza).
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
That video ends at nighttime, with the superstar dancing in the street with zombies as a white car pulls up.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 13 Mar. 2025
But the bigger problem is an alien who’s tinkering with a gum flavor and turning residents into zombies.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2025
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Mar. 2025
An alien spaceship has spiked an immensely popular bubblegum with an interdimensional ectoplasm that turns everyone who chews it into zombies, and the only ones who can save humanity are bickering foster brothers Daffy Duck and Porky Pig (both voiced by Eric Bauza).
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
That video ends at nighttime, with the superstar dancing in the street with zombies as a white car pulls up.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 13 Mar. 2025
But the bigger problem is an alien who’s tinkering with a gum flavor and turning residents into zombies.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zombie
Noun
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The vampires are presented as extensions of the racist white culture that wants to stop the party.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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The Republican panelist, 53, dramatically swooned into the back of her chair after Jordan, 38, chose to lean forward and give her his best vampiric growl while discussing the Prohibition-era vampire horror film on Monday.—
Emlyn Travis,
EW.com,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Lopez’s Spider Woman gets a bad pixie wig and even more garish goth costuming appropriate for a bewitching, bitchy succubus.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2025
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That includes, but is not limited to...actual humans, DMs, AI bots or succubus demons.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
11 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Your fame sits beside you like an incubus, and people are embarrassed and want to leave the room.—
Candace Bushnell,
Vogue,
23 Feb. 2025
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This meaning is visualized in Henry Fuseli’s 1781 painting The Nightmare, which shows a woman sleeping peacefully on a couch while a nauseating monster—an incubus—sits portentously on her abdomen, unbeknownst to her.—
Time,
Time,
28 Dec. 2022
Noun
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The ghouls who did this should be ashamed.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
20 Mar. 2025
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Check out the Halloween decoration ideas below and get ready to unleash your inner ghoul.—
Maria Correa,
Miami Herald,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Zombie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zombie. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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