noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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new
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Beginning Friday, the Civic will co-star in a new science-fiction thriller about genetic engineering, called Gattaca.
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How about that new John Grisham thriller ?
political
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Of love and shadows is more of a political thriller and perhaps easier to read.
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Dennis Waterman is set to hit our screens once more as an ex-SAS soldier in the political thriller , Circle of Deceit.
psychological
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The legspinner beat the outside edge many a time in the ongoing psychological thriller of the summer.
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Unsurprisingly, given its director, the film will be a psychological thriller that focuses on a man's descent into madness.
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spy
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We had been involved in an historical adventure as gripping as any detective tale or spy thriller .
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By his bed was the same spy thriller , still open at the page where he had left it.
■ VERB
write
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Mr le Carr can't seem to make up his mind whether he's writing a thriller or an expos.
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But he has written a steamy thriller , much to the surprise of his conservative minions.
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But Macdonald has produced a decently written , enjoyable thriller .
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Above all, Faber's ambition is significantly higher than simply to write a nightmarish thriller or other genre work.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hard-boiled film/thriller/fiction etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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'Bullet to Beijing', a spy thriller , starring Michael Caine and Michael Gambon
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'Psycho' is Hitchcock's greatest psychological thriller .
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He has written a spy thriller that recalls Fleming's James Bond series.
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His latest work is a legal thriller set in Boston.
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Kurt Russell and Steven Seagal team up in a thriller about a hijacked plane.
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Stephen King's new psychological thriller
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They discovered a mutual love of mysteries and thrillers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A police thriller with a difference.
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Francis retired from racing but has built a new career as a best selling thriller writer.
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It is most definitely a thriller , but with strong romantic undertones.
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It was a virtual-reality thriller just perfect for computer geeks, whose numbers have probably increased tenfold since the hourlong drama crashed.
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Sally Fields' fighting-mom persona is dragged through the first stupid thriller of 1996.
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Some are more thriller than romance.
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The Cowboys handed the Denver Broncos their first home defeat of the season in a 31-27 thriller .