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Adonis

[uh-don-is, uh-doh-nis] / əˈdɒn ɪs, əˈdoʊ nɪs /




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He also worked with emerging regional house music acts, helming A&R for the essential label Trax Records and booked acts like Marshall Jefferson and Adonis at globally prominent nightclubs.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

AI health startup Adonis leased a 25,000-square-foot office at 3 World Trade Center during a time when it had only 25 employees.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 29, 2026

Reibe will start next to Cofie, while the Trojans will have three top-25 prospects in Christian Collins and Adonis and Darius Ratliff to fit in somewhere alongside.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 23, 2026

Until the 1990s, that is, when relentless tabloid coverage reinvented him as New York City’s Adonis.

From Salon Feb. 12, 2026

She kissed him, but Adonis knew not that she kissed him as he died.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The matchbooks on display at the library, nostalgic artifacts adorned with images of muscled Adonises and punning slogans, were everyday objects — used and discarded — at the time they were made.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 1, 2019

A stark difference between me and the zero-body-fat Adonises.

From New York Times Aug. 15, 2016

When a trend is embraced by both the baby-oiled Adonises of luxury fashion and the ruling-class matrons of the Old World, you know somebody’s doing something wrong.

From New York Times Jul. 29, 2010

In this alternate universe, the gods are bronzed-faced Adonises and everyone bleeds yellow and green.

From Washington Post

Peasants imagine themselves princes; Calibans believe themselves to be Adonises; beggars imagine themselves millionaires.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss




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