thriller
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Similarly, General Shirreff wrote the political thriller "War With Russia" in 2016, in which he foresaw Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Ben Shelton to the semis 🔥 Shelton outlasts the defending champion Alcaraz in a five-set thriller!
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
When Owen Wilson signed on to do a buddy action thriller with muscular "Reacher" star Alan Ritchson, he understood very quickly there would have to be a strict division of labor on set.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
If that seems like an impossible contradiction, welcome to the mid-2020s, where reality seems increasingly like dystopian science fiction mixed with an especially opaque John le Carré spy thriller.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
On my father’s is a spy thriller that he must have been reading.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
She’s into the psychological thrillers and those sort of crime investigation shows, so we meet in the middle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Working with cinematographer Ashley Connor, DeYoung drew from 1970s conspiracy thrillers like “The Parallax View” and “All the President’s Men.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
From 12‑goal thrillers to 10-0 humiliations and penalty shootouts that threaten to last almost as long as the match itself, the EFL Cup has had it all over the years.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Seventy-five years ago this summer Alfred Hitchcock released “Strangers on a Train,” the first in the great series of suspense thrillers he would make in the decade to come.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The bookshelf is full of Mom’s favorite thrillers, but I can’t seem to get into any of them.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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