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soap opera

noun as in serial broadcast drama

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A young woman writes radio soap operas in Cuba, where she falls in love with a director who brings her scripts to life.

It’s like a sitcom and a soap opera, and a drama and a documentary because we’re also highlighting and accurately portraying this aspect of immigrant life, Nigerian immigrant life.

From Ozy

The drama, simmering for years, may appear to be a stand-alone soap opera pitting the mercurial Rodgers against the rigid Packers, who seldom stray from their sustainable team-building model.

While marketers dabbling in entertainment is nothing new — the soap opera was created thanks to Procter & Gamble’s sponsorship, after all — how brands do so has evolved.

From Digiday

The show retains some of the primetime soap opera elements of Riverdale, but it incorporates more full-blown horror without bowing to the niceties imposed by network television.

It was a Senate floor soap opera over none other than a soap-opera producer.

The show is as precisely plotted as a soap opera and beautifully lit; entirely, fatally addictive.

As a side note, James and Gilbert being forced to hug it out might be the most shocking twist in this entire soap opera.

Meanwhile, Tony had married his college girlfriend, Cynthia Carrafa, a soap-opera actress and producer, and had started a family.

Going played Arlene, the star of the soap opera that Mel writes for, who mentors Megan.

In many ways, the armed conflict ended up trivialized, another soap opera or spectator sport.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to soap opera, such as: melodrama, serial, soap, daytime drama, daytime serial, and daytime soap.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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