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Recent Examples of saint
The drama also has a saint of a k-drama father, played by Choi Won-young, who the kids are lucky to encounter.
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Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Catholicism provides you with something no rational approach to the world ever will: a cosmology of intercessors, saints.
—Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
The parishioners, mostly women and elderly, slowly file past the images of saints to light candles as offerings.
—Michael Robinson Chávez, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
Medieval stories about the sacred or supernatural—demons, angels, saints, relics and visions—were set in a society where the borders between natural and supernatural were thought to have been thin or nonexistent.
—Matthew Gabriele, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Catholicism provides you with something no rational approach to the world ever will: a cosmology of intercessors, saints.
—Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
The parishioners, mostly women and elderly, slowly file past the images of saints to light candles as offerings.
—Michael Robinson Chávez, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
Medieval stories about the sacred or supernatural—demons, angels, saints, relics and visions—were set in a society where the borders between natural and supernatural were thought to have been thin or nonexistent.
—Matthew Gabriele, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saint
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Olea would allegedly tease her about being a virgin.Ana Claudia Chacin and, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
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Fittingly for a children’s comedy (albeit one that hinges on characters being virgins), the centuries-old vampire resembles a Scooby-Doo villain in his utter inability to outsmart a group of latchkey kids. 17.Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
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The resulting painting, inspired in part by Peter Paul Rubens’s portrait of King Philip, shows the King of Pop on horseback, in glinting gold armor, with cherubs fluttering overhead.Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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The oldest, Caffè Tommaseo, was founded in 1830 as a series of jewel-box rooms adorned with sculpted cherubs and red velvet seating.Taras Grescoe, Travel + Leisure, 23 Nov. 2024
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According to the Associated Press, the colt's third owner is Jill Baffert, the wife of Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert.Newsweek, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
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Forms a treasured bond with a spunky colt named Pinto Bean.Alex Baia, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Saint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saint. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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