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Recent Examples of zombie
Reality, however, doesn’t require sci-fi zombies — fungi that maim and kill people are quickly spreading in the world today.
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Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 6 May 2025
The premise is that a fungal epidemic upends the world, turning the infected into zombies with mushrooms for faces.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2025
Try these 8 post-apocalyptic, zombie books Reading doesn't need to be expensive.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 15 May 2025
The animation director adds the inversion of the zombie genre for Bread Will Walk, where two young people are on the run from a comedic, starving mob, aims beyond engaging audiences to leave them pondering the impact of hunger itself in a world increasingly filled by the haves and have-nots.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2025
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Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 6 May 2025
The premise is that a fungal epidemic upends the world, turning the infected into zombies with mushrooms for faces.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2025
Try these 8 post-apocalyptic, zombie books Reading doesn't need to be expensive.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 15 May 2025
The animation director adds the inversion of the zombie genre for Bread Will Walk, where two young people are on the run from a comedic, starving mob, aims beyond engaging audiences to leave them pondering the impact of hunger itself in a world increasingly filled by the haves and have-nots.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zombie
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This game, about vampires hidden in a dark reflection of our modern world, eventually grew to be part of the World of Darkness.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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The news comes as amid the success of Sinners, the Warner Bros vampire horror film that represents Jordan’s fifth collaboration with Ryan Coogler, after both arrived on the scene with 2013’s Sundance Film Festival hit Fruitvale Station.—
Patrick Hipes,
Deadline,
21 May 2025
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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
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The Devil’s Museum, a satellite of the main collection, has amassed more than 3,000 depictions of demons, evil spirits and incubus from around the world.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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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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It was filled with hideous props — ghouls and skeletons crafted of balsa wood, wax, and papier-mâché.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
8 Mar. 2025
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The episode continues the momentum with an extended stalker-vision first-person shot, as an unseen person creeps inexorably into an unidentified home at night, eventually revealing the Empire ghoul who tortured our gal Bix Caleen (Adria Arjona) last season.—
Jesse Hassenger,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Zombie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zombie. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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