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as in innocent
an innocent or gentle person
would like to think that her child is a perfect angel
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as in herald
one that announces or indicates the later arrival of another
looking forward to seeing those red-breasted angels of the spring—robins
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as in donor
one that helps another with gifts or money
over the years the industrialist frequently served as the symphony orchestra's anonymous angel
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Recent Examples of angel
This track record suggests that small angel investors are likely to fare worse.
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Dileep Rao, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The angel Gabriel, his blue robes fluttering, appears often.
—Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
By Christmas Eve, things like an angel, a drum, a giraffe, and something that could either be a duck or a goose hung side by side.
—Katie Akin, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2024
Golden angels look on from the centerpiece of one of the rebuilt ceilings, seeming to fly again above the transept.
—Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
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Dileep Rao, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The angel Gabriel, his blue robes fluttering, appears often.
—Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
By Christmas Eve, things like an angel, a drum, a giraffe, and something that could either be a duck or a goose hung side by side.
—Katie Akin, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2024
Golden angels look on from the centerpiece of one of the rebuilt ceilings, seeming to fly again above the transept.
—Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for angel
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Palestinians, Ukrainians, and countless others suffer in places where death stalks innocents.Gwen Faulkenberry, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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Just the lives of innocents and the future of media hanging in the balance, no biggie.Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024
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The part comes with all sorts of details that serve as the heralds of its legitimacy, like the fact that Jolie spent months in training to sing opera, her real voice blended with Callas’s famous one whenever her character performs.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
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An 1867 painting lent by the Autry Museum of the American West shows an arriving train as a herald of progress, with deer fleeing its oncoming beam.Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024
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Its nearly $900 million restoration, largely paid for by donations from a few Paris billionaires and some 340,000 other donors, many of them Americans, is just the latest example.Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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To boot, Aidala is an Adams campaign donor and close friend of Frank Carone, Adams’ ex-chief of staff and political confidant.Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 4 Dec. 2024
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Lagoons that are home to rare flamingos; vegetation that feeds goats, sheep, and guanacos; and a way of life followed by Indigenous Atacameño communities for thousands of years may all be in danger.Vince Beiser, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024
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Smithfield, built just beyond the old Roman wall, became the go-to place for the sale of horses, sheep and cattle later that century.Pan Pylas, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
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However, there are signs the market is recovering after being battered by inflation and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes.Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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Symptoms like snoring, mouth breathing and a constant open-lip position are common signs.Maria Sokolina, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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The new group is actively looking for volunteers, members and donators, SAMENA Collective Membership Chairman Wali Qazizada said.Annika Bahnsen, Orange County Register, 19 July 2024
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As of Friday, donators had raised more than $7,500 to financially help the baby's parents.Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
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Most of the fentanyl entering the U.S. is produced by Mexican drug cartels in clandestine labs using precursor chemicals smuggled from Asia, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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As head of the DEA, Chronister would be expected to play a key role in that effort, overseeing efforts to interdict drugs from Mexico and fentanyl precursor chemicals from China.Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2024
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These projects breathed new life into the U.S. conservation movement, the forerunner of today’s climate activism.Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2020
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Embrace change, become a forerunner and refuse to let emotional interference deter productivity.Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2024
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“Angel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/angel. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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