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macabre

[muh-kah-bruh, -kahb, -kah-ber] / məˈkɑ brə, -ˈkɑb, -ˈkɑ bər /


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When that wish starts to come true, his life takes a turn for the macabre.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

And while the movie’s legacy looks a little more macabre now, Panettiere and Trachtenberg’s glimmering performances are enough to push through the darkness.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

A few miles from those macabre discoveries, soccer fans will pour into the volcano-shaped Akron Stadium, just outside Guadalajara, for the first of four World Cup matches that will be played there, beginning Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Diamond wrote this waltz-time weeper with Carole Bayer Sager, who beat him to the punch with her own recording; his version is haunted, hers downright macabre.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Systematically, in her kind, concerned voice she conjured up the macabre future in store for them.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy




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