as in innocent
an innocent or gentle person
he came to see that the members of the cult were sheep who naively went along with whatever their leader dictated
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Recent Examples of sheep
That’s because in the 1980s, a prion disease in sheep, known as scrapies — which humans do not seem to get — moved into cows, and soon people throughout the United Kingdom, France and elsewhere were becoming infected with mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
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Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
Ali's community is comprised of seasonal migrants who travel yearly to herd their sheep, mostly in the plains of neighboring Punjab province.
—Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 16 Apr. 2025
By opening her hogan to visitors, Yazzie hopes to introduce people to the Navajo lifestyle, which traditionally involves herding sheep, weaving rugs, growing crops, and silversmithing.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2025
Some hold the skulls of wild sheep, but one specific burial has the breastbone, a great bustard with cut marks.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2025
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Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
Ali's community is comprised of seasonal migrants who travel yearly to herd their sheep, mostly in the plains of neighboring Punjab province.
—Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 16 Apr. 2025
By opening her hogan to visitors, Yazzie hopes to introduce people to the Navajo lifestyle, which traditionally involves herding sheep, weaving rugs, growing crops, and silversmithing.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2025
Some hold the skulls of wild sheep, but one specific burial has the breastbone, a great bustard with cut marks.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sheep
Noun
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Remmick wants to pull Sammie’s music into his homogeneous blob of bloodsuckers, and likely use it to attract more innocents into the vampire circle.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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What kind of people approve of a government that extra-judicially kidnaps innocents and renders them into the hands of a foreign gulag—and then hides behind that government when ordered by an American court to bring them back?—
Matt Robison,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The incubator has access to a variety of valuable entrepreneurial finance resources, including government grants, state funding programs, and angel investors.—
Jon Stojan,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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Pieces on view included a curving white bouquet beside a marble angel sculpture, a floral tower next to a vintage evening gown, and a colorful arrangement inside a red shoe mirroring a painting of a shoe shiner.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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Dishes will include burrata with heirloom tomatoes and stone fruit, Maine scallops with green chickpeas in a delicate kaffir lime essence, and Australian lamb loin served with spiced carrot mousse and snap peas.—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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It's been a bountiful lambing season so far with lots of healthy lambs.—
Brian Mann,
NPR,
20 Apr. 2025
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“Sheep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sheep. Accessed 8 May. 2025.
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