as in rescue
the saving from danger or evil
we spent the night in the cellar praying for salvation from the tornadoes
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Recent Examples of salvation
Micklethwait Barbecue Twelve years is multiple lifetimes for a food trailer, but Micklethwait lived long enough to finally find salvation in a brick-and-mortar restaurant housed in an old church.
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Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Even so, as Jerry delivers his hokum, Offerman invests it with a hypnotic clarity, a sense that Jerry is trying to create a rational and just world — to create salvation — out of the irrational.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 July 2025
Born in 1932 in a small town on the Argentine pampas, Manuel found his salvation in writing.
—Suzanne Jill Levine
june 30, Literary Hub, 30 June 2025
As in Squid Game, dystopian drama often plays on the barbarity of entertainment, impossible promises of curing human weakness, and finds salvation in our best qualities: solidarity, compassion, and unity.
—Rory Doherty, Time, 27 June 2025
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Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Even so, as Jerry delivers his hokum, Offerman invests it with a hypnotic clarity, a sense that Jerry is trying to create a rational and just world — to create salvation — out of the irrational.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 July 2025
Born in 1932 in a small town on the Argentine pampas, Manuel found his salvation in writing.
—Suzanne Jill Levine
june 30, Literary Hub, 30 June 2025
As in Squid Game, dystopian drama often plays on the barbarity of entertainment, impossible promises of curing human weakness, and finds salvation in our best qualities: solidarity, compassion, and unity.
—Rory Doherty, Time, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for salvation
redemption
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Trump has claimed political redemption after his Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, last month declassified documents regarding Russia’s role in the 2016 election that undermine intelligence accusations that Russia was attempting to help Trump win.—
Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Aug. 2025
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For one of the most celebrated movies of all time, another redemption arc is on the horizon.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Salvation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salvation. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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