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Recent Examples of hades
After Eurydice dies from a snakebite on their wedding day, Orpheus ventures into the Underworld, striking a deal with Hades that will allow Eurydice to follow him into the living world, so long as Orpheus doesn’t turn to look at her.
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Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 28 May 2025
Whereas a number of roguelike games — like Hades or Balatro, for example — inspire a kind of frantic, addictive gameplay, Blue Prince’s leisurely pace allows each run to feel rewarding as opposed to compulsory.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2025
This action roguelike co-op dungeon crawler channels the likes of Hades and Diablo but swaps out the Greek mythology and demons in favor of Lovecraftian horrors.
—David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Find the full Hades 2 Warsong Update patch notes below — careful, here there be spoilers.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
In games like Hades, the challenges players face in each randomized area comes from the enemies and environmental hazards.
—Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2025
Will Hades and Persephone find their way back to each other amidst the shadows?
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025
No cast members here yet, but internet speculation is running rampant about who will play Hercules, Meg and Hades.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Whisker Squadron's Story Anyone who has played Hades knows that indie rogue-lite developers create fantastic premises to justify the endless repetition.
—PCMAG, 16 Mar. 2025
Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 28 May 2025
Whereas a number of roguelike games — like Hades or Balatro, for example — inspire a kind of frantic, addictive gameplay, Blue Prince’s leisurely pace allows each run to feel rewarding as opposed to compulsory.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2025
This action roguelike co-op dungeon crawler channels the likes of Hades and Diablo but swaps out the Greek mythology and demons in favor of Lovecraftian horrors.
—David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Find the full Hades 2 Warsong Update patch notes below — careful, here there be spoilers.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
In games like Hades, the challenges players face in each randomized area comes from the enemies and environmental hazards.
—Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2025
Will Hades and Persephone find their way back to each other amidst the shadows?
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025
No cast members here yet, but internet speculation is running rampant about who will play Hercules, Meg and Hades.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Whisker Squadron's Story Anyone who has played Hades knows that indie rogue-lite developers create fantastic premises to justify the endless repetition.
—PCMAG, 16 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hades
Noun
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Caught Stealing stars Butler as Hank Thompson, a down-on-his-luck former baseball player who is suddenly immersed in the New York City crime underworld in the late 1990s.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
21 May 2025
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There’s nothing wrong with a performer of Cruise's stature and charisma grappling with darkness and ambiguity in this way — in the past that resulted in one of his best, most misunderstood performances, as a doctor slipping down into a moral underworld in Eyes Wide Shut.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
14 May 2025
Noun
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The other two-thirds are on a scale of anxiously hopeful to beyond desperate -- an amorphous netherworld of doubt that, yes, includes the Miami Dolphins with Tua Tagovailoa, or should.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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But the film comes into its own at almost exactly an hour, as The Man begins the ritual and The Surrender threatens to go full occult gonzo, complete with a charmed circle and a bleak netherworld resembling Lucio Fulci’s 1981 splatter epic The Beyond.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
9 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Can Verdugo, known for intensity — if not a full-on internal inferno like Donaldson, at least a flame — have any semblance of such impact on this team?—
David O'Brien,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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Courtesy Andrea-Marie Stark Stark’s house is one of several that survived the inferno on her block, but its proximity to the flames meant everything inside was coated with a thick layer of soot.—
Alicia Victoria Lozano,
NBC News,
4 Mar. 2025
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The video plays clips of the Weeknd singing the haunting lyrics in front of several cement backdrops that show the star stuck in a sort of purgatory.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
6 June 2025
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However, without first thinking about how AI can enable extraordinary outcomes through becoming good at something, being present and reassessing goals, many companies will unintentionally find themselves in an AI purgatory of their own making.—
Michael Hicks,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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“Hades.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hades. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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