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Recent Examples of saint
The phone at Vito’s Pizza had been ringing more than usual that week, thanks to an illustration Mantova’s 30-year-old daughter had taped above the cash register of Luigi Mangione as a saint, wearing an emerald-green robe with a sun haloed behind his dark hair.
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Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2025
And so Rose, immortal on the field, with a bat, was judged immoral off it by the saints who guard baseball’s gate.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
Critic’s Pick George Clooney makes Edward R. Murrow a saint of sane journalism for a world that still needs one in a stage adaptation of the 2005 movie.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
George is my hero, the saint of creatives who have to ask why about every single thing in life in order to live it.
—Kaleb Horton, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2025
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Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2025
And so Rose, immortal on the field, with a bat, was judged immoral off it by the saints who guard baseball’s gate.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
Critic’s Pick George Clooney makes Edward R. Murrow a saint of sane journalism for a world that still needs one in a stage adaptation of the 2005 movie.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
George is my hero, the saint of creatives who have to ask why about every single thing in life in order to live it.
—Kaleb Horton, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saint
Noun
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Deadline is hearing the script is about Delaney Pitts, a nerdy teenage virgin who has a secret online life as an erotic fan fiction author.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
8 Apr. 2025
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And while virgins do have the lowest risk overall, this number has declined significantly over time.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Art cycles in and out of fashion, and nothing could have been less suited to twentieth-century taste than Boucher’s chocolate-box cherubs.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
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All that’s missing is cherub wings.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Standing inside the winner’s circle after piloting Tappan Street to victory in the $1 million Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park on Saturday, Saez sensed the real possibility that the colt could be his salvation – his redemption.—
Clark Spencer,
Miami Herald,
30 Mar. 2025
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The no-dallying mindset, strikingly similar to that of Coal Battle, is a huge advantage over the colts — and there are a lot of them out there — who don’t yet know how to focus their juvenile energy.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Saint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saint. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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