as in savior
one that saves from danger or destruction
the rescued hostages profusely thanked their camouflage-clad redeemers
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Recent Examples of redeemer
This victory would further magnify the prime minister’s aura, enhancing his image as India’s redeemer.
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Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
The people who support Modi see him as a kind of redeemer.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
Because his very identity—as his family’s protector, the redeemer of its name and the breaker of its curse—is bound to the prospect of his sons’ successes in the ring, his professional favor is also a paternal popularity contest.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
The Meaning of Redemption Those words, redemption and redeemer, are significant.
—Jemar Tisby, CNN, 8 Apr. 2023
Trump’s rally contained spiritual elements that cast him as a prophet, redeemer and patriot.
—Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
Meacham bids to be the redeemer in chief of the narrative of American exceptionalism: the venerable if now-shopworn story in which the United States has a providential and world-historic role as a nation distinctively dedicated to human liberty.
—John Fabian Witt, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
That there’s no such thing as possession, ergo no devil, no redeemer to save us, no Hell?
—Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
Her redeemer is Michael (Tom Lewis), a folksy farmer who prays for a wife who likes to go fishing.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2022
Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
The people who support Modi see him as a kind of redeemer.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
Because his very identity—as his family’s protector, the redeemer of its name and the breaker of its curse—is bound to the prospect of his sons’ successes in the ring, his professional favor is also a paternal popularity contest.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
The Meaning of Redemption Those words, redemption and redeemer, are significant.
—Jemar Tisby, CNN, 8 Apr. 2023
Trump’s rally contained spiritual elements that cast him as a prophet, redeemer and patriot.
—Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
Meacham bids to be the redeemer in chief of the narrative of American exceptionalism: the venerable if now-shopworn story in which the United States has a providential and world-historic role as a nation distinctively dedicated to human liberty.
—John Fabian Witt, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
That there’s no such thing as possession, ergo no devil, no redeemer to save us, no Hell?
—Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
Her redeemer is Michael (Tom Lewis), a folksy farmer who prays for a wife who likes to go fishing.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2022
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“Redeemer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redeemer. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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