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Recent Examples of soap opera
The soap opera aired between 1979 and 1993 and starred Michelle Phillips, Michele Lee, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Ted Shackelford, Kevin Dobson and more.
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Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
Trachtenberg was a lifelong actor who made her television debut in commercials at age 3 before landing a recurring role as Lily Montgomery on the long-running soap opera All My Children.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2025
Big defeats have a habit of transforming Manchester United from a football club into a soap opera, with multiple characters bickering over what went wrong.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Cameron Mathison might be a soap opera veteran, but his early days on All My Children were anything but storybook.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
Trachtenberg was a lifelong actor who made her television debut in commercials at age 3 before landing a recurring role as Lily Montgomery on the long-running soap opera All My Children.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2025
Big defeats have a habit of transforming Manchester United from a football club into a soap opera, with multiple characters bickering over what went wrong.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Cameron Mathison might be a soap opera veteran, but his early days on All My Children were anything but storybook.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soap opera
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Most gasoline sold across the U.S. is blended with 10% ethanol, but 15% blends are becoming increasingly common, particularly in the Midwest, where most of the nation’s corn is grown.—
John Hanna,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2025
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Going the other way, a $1.75 U.S. bushel of corn would have been 3.52 deutschmarks in January 1981, but 5.55 deutschmarks in 1985.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
27 Apr. 2025
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Yet the chemicals — also known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS — are not regulated in sludge fertilizer by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.—
Michael Hawthorne,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2025
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No area of any economy may have more sludge than tariff classification.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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If your current diet is low in whole grains, try experimenting with different sources, like quinoa, teff, sorghum, buckwheat, and barley.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
21 Apr. 2025
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Five years ago, a tractor wove through the site cultivating sorghum, which gave way to 40,000 seedlings.—
Laura Mallonee,
Wired News,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Soap opera.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soap%20opera. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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