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Recent Examples of saint
Jim goaded Rick, insulted his mother and claimed his father wasn't a saint.
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Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Acutis, who was a web designer and documented Eucharistic miracles, will be the first millennial to be made a saint.
—Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
This hagiography–or biography of a saint–was written in the late 600s.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2025
The phone at Vito’s Pizza had been ringing more than usual that week, thanks to an illustration Mantova’s 30-year-old daughter had taped above the cash register of Luigi Mangione as a saint, wearing an emerald-green robe with a sun haloed behind his dark hair.
—Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2025
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Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Acutis, who was a web designer and documented Eucharistic miracles, will be the first millennial to be made a saint.
—Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
This hagiography–or biography of a saint–was written in the late 600s.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2025
The phone at Vito’s Pizza had been ringing more than usual that week, thanks to an illustration Mantova’s 30-year-old daughter had taped above the cash register of Luigi Mangione as a saint, wearing an emerald-green robe with a sun haloed behind his dark hair.
—Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saint
Noun
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The idea behind the scene was that Piper, in addition to proving her mother right with her disappointment about the monastery, had also taken it to heart when her brother Saxon mocked her for being a virgin in an earlier episode.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
8 Apr. 2025
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Deadline is hearing the script is about Delaney Pitts, a nerdy teenage virgin who has a secret online life as an erotic fan fiction author.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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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All that’s missing is cherub wings.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The five 3-year-old colts who will break from the starting gate a little after 4:45 p.m. for the $500,000, Grade I race include Journalism, the early favorite for the Kentucky Derby, Citizen Bull, the 2-year-old champion, Barnes, a $3.2 million yearling purchase, and Baeza, a $1.2 million prospect.—
Kevin Modesti,
Oc Register,
4 Apr. 2025
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Standing inside the winner’s circle after piloting Tappan Street to victory in the $1 million Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park on Saturday, Saez sensed the real possibility that the colt could be his salvation – his redemption.—
Clark Spencer,
Miami Herald,
30 Mar. 2025
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“Saint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saint. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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