superspy
Americannoun
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superspies
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There’s an additional slathering of irony in Garner, the woman behind “Alias” superspy Sydney Bristow, playing the happy homemaker.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
The company, famed for its links to fictional superspy James Bond, has been hit by supply chain issues and falling sales in China.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2024
Jackson’s character, the grizzled superspy Nick Fury, has been around since before Tony Stark was Iron Man.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
Lynch’s filmography, after all, was already filled with physically demanding roles, from a pro fighter pilot in “Captain Marvel” to a gravity-defying superspy in “No Time to Die.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
He plays a superspy, Ethan Hunt, who leads a double, sometimes triple, and sometimes quadruple life.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
The story assembles before our eyes like an illustration in a manual for superspies.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
His lead actors remind us why they’re in such high demand to play everything from sentient operating systems to doubt-ridden Portuguese missionaries to Russian-trained superspies to space-opera edge lords.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2019
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson were nearly too old to pass as male models in 2001’s Zoolander, so in 2016, they’re brought together as dim-witted superspies to fight more tyranny in the fashion world.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2016
Small and physically unimposing, Alex has to out-think her opponents; her victories are sweeter because they’re harder won than the triumphs of all those default Hollywood hard-bodied superspies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2016
Instead of casual, world-hopping superspies, here we have them as two weary, dreary guys whose lives are on the skids.
From Time Magazine Archive
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