as in suspenser
something (as a close contest) that induces much suspense as to its outcome
those television awards are hardly thrillers since the same people win year after year
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Recent Examples of thriller
But the changes made by showrunner Rebecca Cutter, who cut her teeth on Starz’s equally twisty-turny thriller Hightown, and her writing team don’t stop there, with a second twist that’s even more thrilling.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 July 2025
The Hunting Wives is a new Netflix thriller about East Texas socialites with secrets aplenty.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 22 July 2025
This move retires the old AAC acronym—which often got mixed up with the ACC—but introduces a new challenge: competing for search engine optimization with the 2010 George Clooney spy thriller of the same name.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 21 July 2025
The first weekend in October has been a rich launch pad for femme thriller movies, particularly those based on bestsellers, i.e. 2014’s Gone Girl ($37.5M) and 2016’s The Girl on the Train ($24.5M opening).
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 11 July 2025
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 July 2025
The Hunting Wives is a new Netflix thriller about East Texas socialites with secrets aplenty.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 22 July 2025
This move retires the old AAC acronym—which often got mixed up with the ACC—but introduces a new challenge: competing for search engine optimization with the 2010 George Clooney spy thriller of the same name.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 21 July 2025
The first weekend in October has been a rich launch pad for femme thriller movies, particularly those based on bestsellers, i.e. 2014’s Gone Girl ($37.5M) and 2016’s The Girl on the Train ($24.5M opening).
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thriller
suspenser
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Directed by Nelicia Low, the suspenser follows a young fencer struggling with keeping his secret crush on a fellow fencer from his homophobic mother.—
Vivienne Chow,
Variety,
17 May 2022
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On the other hand, the story introduces fictional characters and elements that give it the air of a suspenser, exactly the sort for which Harris is so popular.—
Frank Scheck,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Jan. 2022
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“Thriller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thriller. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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