angels

noun

plural of angel
1
as in innocents
an innocent or gentle person would like to think that her child is a perfect angel

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2
as in forerunners
one that announces or indicates the later arrival of another looking forward to seeing those red-breasted angels of the spring—robins

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3
as in donors
one that helps another with gifts or money over the years the industrialist frequently served as the symphony orchestra's anonymous angel

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Recent Examples of angels Shortly after securing its first check, Popl raised a friends-and-family round backed by a couple of early angels, including Jason’s father and Popl advisor, Mike Alvarez Cohen. — Partner Content, Variety, 28 July 2026 Valor’s Antonio Gracias, HubSpot cofounders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, and Cognition CEO Scott Wu are among the angels. — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 16 July 2026 Alongside Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz, Liu played one of the titular angels. — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 13 July 2026 Anne Neilson’s paintings of angels have captured the attention of celebrities and earned her an invitation to The White House recently. — Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2026 When two angels in disguise as men arrive in Sodom, Lot meets them at the town gates, bows reverently, and invites them to pass the night in his house. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026 And, if men are deaf, the angels hear. — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026 There are highs and lows, angels and demons. — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 23 June 2026 Two thousand was a sign the angels were watching over me. — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
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  1. innocents
  2. forerunners
  3. donors
  4. sheep
  5. precursors
  6. donators
  7. saints
  8. harbingers
Noun
  • Some innocents are coerced into false confessions, like what happened to the Central Park Five.
    — Rene Denfeld, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026
  • Over 5,000 deaths, most of them for innocents not driving trucks, in 2023 alone.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Definition of innocents
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  • Margaret and Alice are the forerunners of Lucy and Ethel, and Shakespeare’s comedy, written expressly to entertain, gives us a sense of what an Elizabethan-era situation comedy might look like.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
  • One of the forerunners today in Madeira and the Azores is António Maçanita from Azores Wine Company.
    — Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of forerunners
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  • Interest groups play an outsize role in national elections, politicians spend their time on calls with wealthy donors instead of meeting constituents and parties increasingly focus on themselves rather than average Americans.
    — Susan Ostermann, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Ticket sales will never bring in the kind of money theaters need to sustain a robust slate of diverse programming — that will always have to come from donors.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
Definition of donors
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  • While each Republican sheep committed a virtual public hanging of the accomplished Fauci, Laura Ingraham smirked each and every time a Republican lambasted him!
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The legislation also required a report on the employment of sheep and goat herders.
    — Velvet Wu August 2, Sacbee.com, 2 Aug. 2026
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  • Laboratory demonstrations have already shown production pathways for lubricant precursors, munition components, active pharmaceutical ingredients, bioplastics, and single-cell proteins.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026
  • In this study, published last month in Science, researchers found that as mice got close to the end of their pregnancies, placental levels of NAD+ and its precursors dropped off fast.
    — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 20 July 2026
Definition of precursors
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  • That’s the gold standard of cancer designations that allows patients and donators alike to understand Sylvester’s standards.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2026
Definition of donators
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  • Along with the saints found on El Mencho’s altar, another saint embraced in narco culture is the Santo Niño of Atocha, a childlike Christ figure known as the patron saint of prisoners and those in danger, said Robert Almonte, a law enforcement trainer and consultant in San Antonio, Texas.
    — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 7 June 2026
Definition of saints
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  • The world looked to the social elite as the ultimate harbingers of style trends and sophistication, giving them a cultural cache and, in turn, a sense of power.
    — Moises Mendez II, InStyle, 29 June 2026
  • If canaries in coal mines were harbingers of safe conditions, surely piping plovers at Waukegan Beach mean the city is overcoming its polluted past.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
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