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as in innocents
an innocent or gentle person
would like to think that her child is a perfect angel
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as in forerunners
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 donors
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 angels
Norway’s princess, Märtha Louise, claims to be a clairvoyant who can communicate with angels.
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Barry Levitt, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
But that money only flows to founders who know how to approach angels right.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
And every tabloid has a different tidbit, so the angels could attend vicariously.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2025
Charlie is already in paradise with the angels.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
The idea that that's now a thing that angels have to get involved with because so many people are texting and driving.
—Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
Of the roiling mass of restless natives, cranky artists and tattered idealists who rose up across the Southland this summer to flip off darkness and call America back to its better angels?
—John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Paranoia-inducing fictions like Wells’s aside, the public came to view Martians not as monsters but as representatives of a higher civilization—as angels, even, at a time when new science was shaking old religious certainties.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Polar Wishes Collection Celebrate the season with traditional holiday motifs, such as light-up angels, presents, and snowmen.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2025
Barry Levitt, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
But that money only flows to founders who know how to approach angels right.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
And every tabloid has a different tidbit, so the angels could attend vicariously.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2025
Charlie is already in paradise with the angels.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
The idea that that's now a thing that angels have to get involved with because so many people are texting and driving.
—Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
Of the roiling mass of restless natives, cranky artists and tattered idealists who rose up across the Southland this summer to flip off darkness and call America back to its better angels?
—John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Paranoia-inducing fictions like Wells’s aside, the public came to view Martians not as monsters but as representatives of a higher civilization—as angels, even, at a time when new science was shaking old religious certainties.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Polar Wishes Collection Celebrate the season with traditional holiday motifs, such as light-up angels, presents, and snowmen.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for angels
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The slaughter of the innocents that follows the birth of Jesus in the Book of Matthew is depicted by limp infants that Gaudí modelled on casts of actual stillborn babies.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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This lesson plan includes no discussion of how, in the name of socialism and equality, Cold War despots in Russia, Romania, Poland and other Eastern Bloc counties slaughtered innocents, seized property and sunk their countries into starvation-level poverty.—
Betsy McCaughey,
Boston Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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If the city had some kind of fair rules and guidelines, the La Jolla donors would have to donate the funds to the city of San Diego to be placed into a city library fund where donations were collected for all nine council districts.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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Her organization has created an artificial intelligence program that can match requests for grants with potential donors.—
Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This includes the eyeball alien that’s possessed the sheep, a rapidly growing Xenomorph, and large, flying bug-like creatures that have made a little hive for themselves.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Skip the sheep-counting and cup of chamomile, and luxuriate in the sleep-inducing blend of calming lavender oil, soothing balsam resin, moisturizing sweet almond oil, and relaxing magnesium salt flakes instead.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And the precursors for that reality may already be in motion, Metzger noted.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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While every relationship faces challenges, certain patterns consistently appear as precursors to deeper dysfunction.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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One of the most worrisome harbingers of future affordability is that Florida added more than 700,000 units with gross rents higher than $1,200 monthly between 2012 and 2022.—
Jeffrey Steele,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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With no ground to generate revenue, and limited gate receipts, Enfield FC rely on benefactors putting large sums of money into the club — not uncommon at this level.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2025
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The cartoon continues to relish poking its corporate benefactors.—
Nick Marx,
The Conversation,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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McCarty had seen a number of ewes and lambs but no rams.—
Tim Kelly,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Many of the protesters held anti-Trump signs and Palestinian flags.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
18 Sep. 2025
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More than thirty signs referencing racial discrimination and the hostile attitudes of white people to those who were formerly enslaved will come down or be partially covered.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Angels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/angels. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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