genre
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The one genre Blunt says she doesn’t like is horror, even though she’s about to shoot the fourth Quiet Place film.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Meagan hopes that Off Campus helps the hockey romance genre attract greater respect, adding that it is often dismissed as "silly, trivial and girly".
From BBC • May 30, 2026
“Hell’s Kitchen,” a New York story of a wunderkind discovering her gift, helped me get over my allergy to the jukebox genre.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026
“That’s one of the odd things about that particular genre of television,” he told me in 2016.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
But the great example of this genre is It Happened One Night, with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, who famously dispensed with wearing an undershirt.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
Vocabulary lists containing genre
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 3
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