soap opera

as in corn
something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental the movie started out well, but quickly devolved into improbable soap opera

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Recent Examples of soap opera There’s always the soap opera, and there’s suds here. Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 15 May 2025 Budenholzer’s communication with some players—or lack thereof—became an episodic soap opera throughout the season. Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 11 Apr. 2025 The teen soap opera, in which a newly pretty girl played by Lola Tung finds herself in a love triangle with two brothers who happen to have been family friends for her entire life, is coming to a close after three seasons. Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 2 May 2025 After three years on the popular soap opera, the 34-year-old actress revealed her time as Summer Newman will be coming to an end this week. Liza Esquibias, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for soap opera
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Noun
  • Cream Corn Shucking corn is one of the messiest kitchen tasks there is, nevertheless, Southerners persist, because cream corn is one of the most blissful summer dishes.
    Josh Miller, Southern Living, 31 May 2025
  • Down three, the Yankees rallied with a pair of two-out two-run homers into the corn from Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton.
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • Reichardt’s previous films, such as her retro Westerns Meek’s Cutoff and First Cow, have tended towards sludge and shadows, but her competition closer opens with the golden leaves of a New England fall, slightly faded to the paler golds of an Ektachrome postcard of the era.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 May 2025
  • Add the bark powder, which turns into DMT-laden sludge.
    Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Grains like spelt and sorghum can be used to make beer instead.
    Em Sauter, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • For any dish needing rice or quinoa or for any baking recipe that calls for traditional flour, try sorghum instead.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025

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“Soap opera.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soap%20opera. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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