as in sheep
an innocent or gentle person
the new guys at football camp were lambs who hardly knew what awaited them
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Recent Examples of lamb
Kurobuta pork chop, Colorado rack of lamb, and more.
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Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 16 Feb. 2025
Where Brits feel like suspicious maniacs—one of the most rewarding things about UK Traits is seeing relatively clever people so certain in their wrongness—Americans are lambs to the slaughter, bound up in factions blind to internal threats.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025
As this is a working farm, guests are invited to participate in rural activities like collecting eggs, bottle feeding lambs, and even hunting for mushrooms.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2025
Los Gallos served small and beautifully made lamb, chicken, pork and beef street tacos, like the tacos al pastor.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 16 Feb. 2025
Where Brits feel like suspicious maniacs—one of the most rewarding things about UK Traits is seeing relatively clever people so certain in their wrongness—Americans are lambs to the slaughter, bound up in factions blind to internal threats.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025
As this is a working farm, guests are invited to participate in rural activities like collecting eggs, bottle feeding lambs, and even hunting for mushrooms.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2025
Los Gallos served small and beautifully made lamb, chicken, pork and beef street tacos, like the tacos al pastor.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lamb
Noun
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Manderley Farm is idyllic, with its picturesque rolling hills filled with sheep.—
Lois Alter Mark,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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Alex's owner's TikTok channel is filled with sweet videos of baby lambs out in the fields, as well as older sheep and rams being shown at championships and shows.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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Zoom in: Soma Capital, Afore Capital and other angel investors also participated in the round.—
Tim Baysinger,
Axios,
11 Mar. 2025
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The move reunites Lin with Reeves, who became an angel investor in the filmmaker’s latest drama and return to indie roots, Last Days, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.—
Borys Kit,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Mar. 2025
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According to human rights organizations, most were denied due process, innocents including children were detained, and hundreds were tortured in jail and died.—
Tracy Wilkinson,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Dec. 2024
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Al-Qaeda’s attack on Sept. 11, 2001, which murdered about 3,000 innocents of every race, background and socio-economic class, left him somewhere between agnostic and satisfied.—
Jeff Robbins,
Boston Herald,
14 Oct. 2024
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“Lamb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamb. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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