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or ingénue
as in angel
an innocent girl or young woman
In her latest film she plays the part of an ingenue.
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Recent Examples of ingenue
But like Swift, Liz was the ingenue who made everything sticky by growing up.
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Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2025
And Oscar voters do not need much of an excuse to pledge their votes to an enthralling young ingenue.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
After the song was released early Friday, Swifties quickly landed on three possible suspects: Scooter Braun, Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta, and ingenue songstress Olivia Rodrigo.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Oct. 2025
Panday plays a convincingly gruff tortured artist alongside Padda’s struggling ingenue, and most of the screen time is devoted to their pairing instead of introducing tertiary excess.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2025
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Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2025
And Oscar voters do not need much of an excuse to pledge their votes to an enthralling young ingenue.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
After the song was released early Friday, Swifties quickly landed on three possible suspects: Scooter Braun, Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta, and ingenue songstress Olivia Rodrigo.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Oct. 2025
Panday plays a convincingly gruff tortured artist alongside Padda’s struggling ingenue, and most of the screen time is devoted to their pairing instead of introducing tertiary excess.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingenue
Noun
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The company’s pre-seed round is backed by Nuwa Capital, Suhail Ventures, Plus VC, OQAL Angel Syndicate and a number of strategic angel investors.—
David Prosser,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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There should be an appeal to our better angels to look after one another and to recognize what’s happening.—
Dave Campbell,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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In a key scene, the innocents jump back and forth between dinner parties playing out at the same time despite taking place on successive nights.—
Manuel Mendoza,
Dallas Morning News,
8 Jan. 2026
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The J6ers were not insurrectionists, traitors, and miscreants but patriots, heroes, and innocents.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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Opt for extra virgin avocado oil whenever possible.—
Amy Brownstein,
Verywell Health,
28 Jan. 2026
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The maturation protocol reflects a cask combination of American virgin oak, ex-bourbon, Spanish Oloroso, PX, and Portuguese red wine casks, designed to add layered, nuanced complexity to a whisky peated at 54 PPM.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
17 Jan. 2026
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Five years ago, Tyler Ballgame was living at home in Rhode Island, singing cover songs and fronting a fledgling local indie rock band.—
Millan Verma,
Pitchfork,
30 Jan. 2026
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Perhaps not so surprising was that Dr Branston and collaborators’ discovered that a larger human population density reduced fledging success, and that higher ambient temperatures were negatively related to first egg laying date, clutch size and the number of fledglings produced.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Finally, and very importantly for the greenhorns among us: What’s your tip for getting rid of soreness after a ride?—
Samantha Dunn,
Oc Register,
9 Sep. 2025
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Flecks of mica and pyrite and who knows what, but only fools and greenhorns mistake it for gold.—
John Archibald,
Southern Living,
25 May 2025
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“Ingenue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingenue. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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