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thriller

noun as in cliffhanger

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That’s what happened in the mind-bending1999 thriller The Matrix.

Christianna Brand suggests that six or seven suspects should be the limit, while Lionel Davidson recalls how he came to write his magnificent thriller, “The Rose of Tibet.”

In The Dissident, Khashoggi’s story unfolds like a political thriller.

From Time

Tennessee upended Baltimore’s storybook season in last year’s playoffs, and the Titans won an OT thriller when the two teams met in November.

While the plot takes a darker turn into thriller territory, this read is ideal for anyone who has ever felt manipulated, threatened, or dismissed in the workplace.

From Fortune

If the ongoing Hollywood scandal were a teen thriller from the 90s.

Thriller author Patrick Oster was a reporter in Berlin when the wall came down 25 years ago.

What prompted you to pick the fall of the Berlin Wall as the backdrop for your thriller?

With Thriller, we took 800 songs and whittled them down to nine.

He believed American audiences were ready for a thriller set in Africa.

Nowadays almost every fictionist of account produces one good thriller at least of this sort.

It happened the very next day, beginning with a circumstance which made Tom feel indeed like a hero in a cheap thriller.

So for a number of years the parachute was little heard of, except as a “thriller” at country fairs.

Before the week ended I had written another thriller and this, too, was accepted.

If she only could write scenarios, what a thriller this would make!

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On this page you'll find 164 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to thriller, such as: close call, shocker, squeaker, close shave, narrow escape, and spine-chiller.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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