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CNN operas

CNN operas is the plural of CNN opera.

Meaning of CNN opera

Noun

CNN opera (plural CNN operas)

  1. (derogatory, mildly) An opera about contemporary events.
    • To understand the CNN opera, you have to go back to 1976, when the Robert Wilson/Philip Glass avant-garde extravaganza Einstein on the Beach — not a newsy opera, but a fact-based one — suddenly, surprisingly, filled the vast spaces of the Metropolitan Opera House[…][1995 April 10, Peter G. Davis, “Headline Muse”, in New York Magazine, page 52

Questions about CNN operas

What is CNN operas the plural of?
CNN operas is the plural of CNN opera.

Words near CNN operas in the dictionary

  1. CNMI
  2. CNMs
  3. CNN
  4. CNN effect
  5. CNN opera
  6. CNN operas
  7. CNNer
  8. CNNers
  9. CNNesque
  10. CNNs
  11. CNO

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