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Recent Examples of innocence Combs has maintained his innocence and denied their allegations. Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2025 The big picture: The 71-year-old maintained his innocence but was found guilty on all 16 felony counts and was sentenced alongside New Jersey businessmen Wael Hana and Fred Daibes, who were also charged in the case, per a Department of Justice statement. Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025 According to Joe Tacopina, Rocky’s attorney, the rapper was carrying a prop gun at the time of the incident and has maintained his innocence, entering a plea of not guilty. Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 29 Jan. 2025 Overwhelmed by grief and fear, the child’s plight moves the Faerie Queen, who compassionately spirits him away to the Faerie State, to preserve his innocence. Leo Barraclough, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for innocence 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for innocence
Noun
  • Blindness or willful ignorance of the future is an extremely risky path to pursue.
    PATRICK CASEY, DEBRA FISER, WHIT HALL and GARY WHEELER Special to the Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 9 Feb. 2025
  • The recent malicious defamation and degradation of DEI is based at best on ignorance and at worst, on racial bias and stereotyping.
    Dr. Tony Lux, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • White is generally associated with purity and holiness.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The International Atomic Energy Agency earlier this month warned that Iran has developed some 440 pounds of near-weapons grade uranium that has been enriched to the 60% purity threshold – shy of the 90% purity levels needed to develop a nuclear bomb.
    Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Despite its simplicity, the coin toss is a pivotal moment in the Super Bowl, one that carries weight far beyond its apparent randomness.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
  • While ETFs offer intraday liquidity for investors, some financial advisors and their clients may prefer the long-term track records and simplicity of traditional money market funds, many of which are designed to trade at $1.
    Jesse Pound, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Debnam-Carey imbues Milla with the right level of sincerity to elicit empathy even when her practices are misguided, and Dee stands as a suitable voice of reason amid the copious noise (as does Ashley Zukerman as Bell’s beleaguered partner, Clive).
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 7 Feb. 2025
  • These words are one of the biggest markers of sincerity in language, according to Markowitz.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 1 Feb. 2025

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“Innocence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innocence. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.

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