zombie
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Sponsors say most continuation vehicles aren’t intended for zombie funds, as many buyers in the secondary market aren’t focused on impaired assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Just around the time they started staggering onto TV, Colson Whitehead published a zombie novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
On Monday, Casper Ruud said he felt he was "walking around like a zombie" and feared he had heat stroke after struggling with cramping in 33C temperatures.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
These cells -- often called "zombie cells" -- stop dividing but refuse to die off normally.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026
There’s no such thing as a zombie apocalypse, he told himself, but his heart didn’t get the message and started to pound.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
The 30-year-old navigator from rural Bangladesh normally passes seatime evading zombies on the videogame Minecraft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Residents "fight like zombies" for every bit of supply delivered to her village "because we are starving", she added.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025
“A lot of people are scared of these human beings because they look at them like they’re zombies or something,” Miranda said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
Yet despite the local ecclesiastical authorities approving the scene, the installation in central Brussels has come under fire online since opening on Friday, with right-wing Belgian politician Georges-Louis Bouchez even comparing the figures to "zombies".
From Barron's ● Dec. 2, 2025
Pedestrians woke up and stared uncomprehendingly at the monsters and zombies all around them.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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