as in angels
an innocent or gentle person
an innocent who is often puzzled by and prey to the evils of the world
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Recent Examples of innocents
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.
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Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026
The J6ers were not insurrectionists, traitors, and miscreants but patriots, heroes, and innocents.
—Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
Her investigation considers the history of several doomed innocents, beginning with Lana Clarkson, a B-movie queen who was brutally murdered and subsequently conscripted to the annals of true crime.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
It’s targeted, precise, and doesn’t risk innocents.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2025
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
Praying with your feet means to move, to advance, to take, literally, steps to make sure innocents are not gunned down in church or school by a madman.
—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025
But when innocents get dragged into the mess Robbie has created, the task force becomes more important than any of its members appear ready to handle.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
After a new kind of dawn patrol to remove our tired but awake—and vocal—kids from the innocents in the campsites around us, my husband and I called uncle.
—Jenny Wiegand, Outside, 27 Aug. 2025
Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026
The J6ers were not insurrectionists, traitors, and miscreants but patriots, heroes, and innocents.
—Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
Her investigation considers the history of several doomed innocents, beginning with Lana Clarkson, a B-movie queen who was brutally murdered and subsequently conscripted to the annals of true crime.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
It’s targeted, precise, and doesn’t risk innocents.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2025
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
Praying with your feet means to move, to advance, to take, literally, steps to make sure innocents are not gunned down in church or school by a madman.
—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025
But when innocents get dragged into the mess Robbie has created, the task force becomes more important than any of its members appear ready to handle.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
After a new kind of dawn patrol to remove our tired but awake—and vocal—kids from the innocents in the campsites around us, my husband and I called uncle.
—Jenny Wiegand, Outside, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for innocents
Noun
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But, surely the angels also ate angel biscuits—hot, split, and buttered.—
Anne Byrn,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
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Yet some angels stood against evil and took action, evidenced by survivors who were hidden by a few righteous people who cared about humanity.—
Barbara Byer,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Tests on rats and sheep show injuries consistent with those seen in humans.—
Scott Pelley,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Sable Pass at Mile 39 is a top spot for grizzly bears, caribou, and Dall sheep.—
Karthika Gupta,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Common types are crabgrass, goosegrass, giant foxtail, smooth pigweed, common lambs quarters, purslane, galinsoga, common ragweed, and tall morning glory.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
14 Mar. 2026
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The handwritten menu changes almost daily, and it’s loaded with traditional dishes like oysters, rillet, confit garlic and goats’ curd on toast, chicken liver parfait, and chargrilled lambs’ hearts.—
Cass Farrar,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Innocents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innocents. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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