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Related Articles Cardi accessorized with bold statement, cherub ribbon earrings by Phoebe Hyles, crafted for Nicol & Ford’s fall 2024 collection.
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Julia Teti, Footwear News, 9 June 2025
In the early nineties, Pavement looked like a funny paradox, a crew of cherubs in collared shirts backed by Young, a long-haired, often shirtless showman pounding his drums.
—Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
In the yard the stone statues of two naked cherubs hug, an orange tree is laden with fruit and the flame red hibiscus and poinsettia are in full bloom.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
Art cycles in and out of fashion, and nothing could have been less suited to twentieth-century taste than Boucher’s chocolate-box cherubs.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
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Julia Teti, Footwear News, 9 June 2025
In the early nineties, Pavement looked like a funny paradox, a crew of cherubs in collared shirts backed by Young, a long-haired, often shirtless showman pounding his drums.
—Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
In the yard the stone statues of two naked cherubs hug, an orange tree is laden with fruit and the flame red hibiscus and poinsettia are in full bloom.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
Art cycles in and out of fashion, and nothing could have been less suited to twentieth-century taste than Boucher’s chocolate-box cherubs.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cherub
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Two saints were born in the United States: Elizabeth Ann Seton, born in New York in 1774 and canonized in 1975; and Katharine Mary Drexel, born in Philadelphia in 1858 and canonized in 2000.—
Maya Bell,
jsonline.com,
18 July 2025
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High temperature: 102 degrees (1988) Low temperature: 52 degrees (1967) Precipitation: 1.88 inches (1899) Snowfall: None 1850: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini — the first American saint — was born in Italy.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
15 July 2025
Noun
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Alexander said the recycling industry wants to see a treaty outcome that helps to level the economic playing field between recycled plastics and new, or virgin, plastic materials.—
Jeff Young,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 July 2025
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But one vivid, if unlikely, detail has endured: Her traveling companions were some 11,000 virgins.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Apr. 2025
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But the odds on the 4-year-old son of City of Light shortened again Sunday morning when two of the colt’s closest rivals — former Eddie Read champion Gold Phoenix and Atitlan — were scratched from the 1 1/16-mile turf run for older horses.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 July 2025
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While watching a nesting crane keeping a chick warm beneath its feathers, she was startled when a bright yellow gosling popped out instead of a crane colt.—
Anne Readel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 June 2025
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“Cherub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cherub. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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