as in angels
an innocent or gentle person
an innocent who is often puzzled by and prey to the evils of the world
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Recent Examples of innocents
The slaughter of the innocents that follows the birth of Jesus in the Book of Matthew is depicted by limp infants that Gaudí modelled on casts of actual stillborn babies.
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D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
This lesson plan includes no discussion of how, in the name of socialism and equality, Cold War despots in Russia, Romania, Poland and other Eastern Bloc counties slaughtered innocents, seized property and sunk their countries into starvation-level poverty.
—Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
Praying with your feet means to move, to advance, to take, literally, steps to make sure innocents are not gunned down in church or school by a madman.
—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025
But when innocents get dragged into the mess Robbie has created, the task force becomes more important than any of its members appear ready to handle.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
After a new kind of dawn patrol to remove our tired but awake—and vocal—kids from the innocents in the campsites around us, my husband and I called uncle.
—Jenny Wiegand, Outside, 27 Aug. 2025
Thus, the probability of innocents being killed or wounded in these deployments is high.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
Human rights advocates, meanwhile, warn that the crime crackdown has resulted in tens of thousands of innocents being caught in a dragnet.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Reflexive, long fashionable anti-Israelism is a given, and horror at the suffering of innocents who are now dying by the thousands is understandable.
—Jeff Robbins, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2025
D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
This lesson plan includes no discussion of how, in the name of socialism and equality, Cold War despots in Russia, Romania, Poland and other Eastern Bloc counties slaughtered innocents, seized property and sunk their countries into starvation-level poverty.
—Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
Praying with your feet means to move, to advance, to take, literally, steps to make sure innocents are not gunned down in church or school by a madman.
—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025
But when innocents get dragged into the mess Robbie has created, the task force becomes more important than any of its members appear ready to handle.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
After a new kind of dawn patrol to remove our tired but awake—and vocal—kids from the innocents in the campsites around us, my husband and I called uncle.
—Jenny Wiegand, Outside, 27 Aug. 2025
Thus, the probability of innocents being killed or wounded in these deployments is high.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
Human rights advocates, meanwhile, warn that the crime crackdown has resulted in tens of thousands of innocents being caught in a dragnet.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Reflexive, long fashionable anti-Israelism is a given, and horror at the suffering of innocents who are now dying by the thousands is understandable.
—Jeff Robbins, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for innocents
Noun
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As of Monday, the Facebook post reached almost 10,000 likes, more than 3,000 shares and over 1,100 comments, with people hailing the couple as angels.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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The idea that that's now a thing that angels have to get involved with because so many people are texting and driving.—
Jessica Wang,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Young spoke with Variety about the unarticulated rivalry that the Lost Boys have with one another, playing an adult with the mind of a child and working with a real-life sheep while staging his character’s grisly demise.—
Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
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Wheat, cattle and sheep lined the horizon.—
Reid Rasner,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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McCarty had seen a number of ewes and lambs but no rams.—
Tim Kelly,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Innocents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innocents. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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