soap opera

Example Sentences

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So much drama has happened at the Fed lately that it might as well be a soap opera.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Goodrem, who is known to UK TV fans for her role in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, is one of the biggest-selling female artists in her home country.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

After a charming monologue in which she also sang, Rodrigo played a scheming woman in a “Dynasty”-like nighttime soap opera from the 1980s, “Edge of Destiny,” where people kept falling down the stairs.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026

"This is a tech soap opera that all investors will be watching," Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a note to investors.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

If I hadn't made him watch so many episodes of Days of Our Lives, he wouldn't have developed a nasty habit of speaking in the vernacular of a soap opera villain.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi