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as in innocent
an innocent or gentle person
would like to think that her child is a perfect angel
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as in herald
one that announces or indicates the later arrival of another
looking forward to seeing those red-breasted angels of the spring—robins
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as in donor
one that helps another with gifts or money
over the years the industrialist frequently served as the symphony orchestra's anonymous angel
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Recent Examples of angel
This track record suggests that small angel investors are likely to fare worse.
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Dileep Rao, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The angel Gabriel, his blue robes fluttering, appears often.
—Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
By Christmas Eve, things like an angel, a drum, a giraffe, and something that could either be a duck or a goose hung side by side.
—Katie Akin, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2024
Golden angels look on from the centerpiece of one of the rebuilt ceilings, seeming to fly again above the transept.
—Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
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Dileep Rao, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The angel Gabriel, his blue robes fluttering, appears often.
—Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
By Christmas Eve, things like an angel, a drum, a giraffe, and something that could either be a duck or a goose hung side by side.
—Katie Akin, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2024
Golden angels look on from the centerpiece of one of the rebuilt ceilings, seeming to fly again above the transept.
—Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for angel
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Palestinians, Ukrainians, and countless others suffer in places where death stalks innocents.Gwen Faulkenberry, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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Just the lives of innocents and the future of media hanging in the balance, no biggie.Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024
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The part comes with all sorts of details that serve as the heralds of its legitimacy, like the fact that Jolie spent months in training to sing opera, her real voice blended with Callas’s famous one whenever her character performs.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
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An 1867 painting lent by the Autry Museum of the American West shows an arriving train as a herald of progress, with deer fleeing its oncoming beam.Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024
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President-Elect Donald Trump has nominated Frank Bisignano, a GOP donor and CEO of fintech and payments firm Fiserv, to the role.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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For Pisano’s procedure earlier this year, the NYU team used a donor pig with a single genetic edit—a gene knockout to eliminate alpha-gal sugar on the surface of the pigs’ cells.Emily Mullin, WIRED, 17 Dec. 2024
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Later home felt everywhere, radiant waters, thistles, greenest hilltops dotted with sheep, masses of tulips and geese, wandering William’s intricate paths, pausing at every turn, life stretching ahead, mountains of bliss and searing sorrow for years to come.Jennifer Harlan, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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The sustainable brand makes latex for its mattresses in California using materials from its own farms, cares for thousands of sheep, and is working toward achieving a zero-waste output in its factory.Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Dec. 2024
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Symptoms like snoring, mouth breathing and a constant open-lip position are common signs.Maria Sokolina, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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However, there are signs the market is recovering after being battered by inflation and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes.Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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The new group is actively looking for volunteers, members and donators, SAMENA Collective Membership Chairman Wali Qazizada said.Annika Bahnsen, Orange County Register, 19 July 2024
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As of Friday, donators had raised more than $7,500 to financially help the baby's parents.Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
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Poor sleep is associated with insulin resistance (cells do not respond to insulin to take in blood glucose for energy, causing blood sugar levels to rise), which may be the precursor to prediabetes (having blood sugar levels that are not quite high enough to be considered type 2 diabetes).Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 16 Dec. 2024
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The last time the Democratic Party faced this scale of electoral defeat was also the precursor to its greatest twenty-first-century success.Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024
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These projects breathed new life into the U.S. conservation movement, the forerunner of today’s climate activism.Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2020
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Embrace change, become a forerunner and refuse to let emotional interference deter productivity.Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2024
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“Angel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/angel. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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