as in innocent
an innocent or gentle person
he came to see that the members of the cult were sheep who naively went along with whatever their leader dictated
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Recent Examples of sheep
Meat production has dropped, leading to higher prices in the local market and higher imports of live cattle, sheep and red meat.
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Reuters, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
That’s not including Lois, the 4-year-old California Red sheep who nearly steals the show as an animal who belongs to the Tate family and is afflicted with something nasty.
—Maya Phillips, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
The laughs Lois got in that moment were bigger and truer than anything else in the production, all because the sheep wasn’t trying and was just, accidentally, in the moment.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2025
There’s a pastoral serenity to the place, with geese waddling in a line and sheep and cows grazing, but Munir continues to carry his sadness like a heavy burden.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2025
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Reuters, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
That’s not including Lois, the 4-year-old California Red sheep who nearly steals the show as an animal who belongs to the Tate family and is afflicted with something nasty.
—Maya Phillips, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
The laughs Lois got in that moment were bigger and truer than anything else in the production, all because the sheep wasn’t trying and was just, accidentally, in the moment.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2025
There’s a pastoral serenity to the place, with geese waddling in a line and sheep and cows grazing, but Munir continues to carry his sadness like a heavy burden.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sheep
Noun
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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
Noun
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Unlike Silicon Valley, New York lacked a deep pool of experienced angel investors in 2017–2018.—
Christer Holloman,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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The latter will be completed by Alexia Laroche-Joubert, the boss of Banijay France; filmmaker-producer Julie Gayet; business angel and founder of Allociné Jean-David Blanc; and journalist Éric Libiot.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Sriram stars in her 16mm debut as AP, a fun-loving dominatrix who learns from a tarot reader (Big Freedia) that she’s been cursed, and the only way to lift the curse is to come up with $1,000 and sacrifice a baby lamb.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
19 Mar. 2025
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March may come in like a lion and go out like a lamb, but in between there are a whole lot of arts events to enjoy.—
Matthew J. Palm,
Orlando Sentinel,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Sheep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sheep. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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