zombie
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It is a "zombie city," says 30-year-old resident Juan David Gaitan.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
“It’s a zombie loan that should be dead, but it continues to stalk my wife and I every month demanding to be paid.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Kavinsky - his red-eyed zombie DJ alter ego - was part of the second wave of influential "French Touch" artists including the likes of Justice and Sebastian.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Just around the time they started staggering onto TV, Colson Whitehead published a zombie novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
She also said that thrift stores were the best places to find Halloween costumes, but so far I didn’t see anything that a zombie would wear.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
If weekend warriors can’t slay zombies on a dystopian battlefield, at least they can massacre dandelions in their backyards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
His campaign underscored his attacks against Becerra by having a handful of supporters dressed as zombies speak outside of Becerra’s Sunday evening rally in Long Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
Residents "fight like zombies" for every bit of supply delivered to her village "because we are starving", she added.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025
Yet despite the local ecclesiastical authorities approving the scene, the installation in central Brussels has come under fire online since opening on Friday, with right-wing Belgian politician Georges-Louis Bouchez even comparing the figures to "zombies".
From Barron's ● Dec. 2, 2025
All these people he had written off as zombies when he’d met them.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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