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as in innocents
an innocent or gentle person
would like to think that her child is a perfect angel
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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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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
In 2017, the angels (who requested anonymity) attracted other donors, which enabled the school to finally return employees to normal salaries, cover tuition for needy students, acquire improvements, such as technology for students and teachers, and offer new courses, including art and music.
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Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
The first six angels named to the runway are Adriana Lima, Alex Consani, Anok Yai, Joan Smalls, Lily Aldridge, and Yumi Nu.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 9 Oct. 2025
With its references to holy water and angels, its spiritual elements have also broadened its appeal.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
The round is led by Daman Investments, with other investors including Cartography Capital, Epic Angels, Wahed Ventures, Accelerate Prosperity and several business angels.
—David Prosser, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Parnes reports that Cox has bucked common political rhetoric again with a call for better angels.
—Jared Gans, The Hill, 17 Sep. 2025
Norway’s princess, Märtha Louise, claims to be a clairvoyant who can communicate with angels.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
And every tabloid has a different tidbit, so the angels could attend vicariously.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2025
Charlie is already in paradise with the angels.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
The first six angels named to the runway are Adriana Lima, Alex Consani, Anok Yai, Joan Smalls, Lily Aldridge, and Yumi Nu.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 9 Oct. 2025
With its references to holy water and angels, its spiritual elements have also broadened its appeal.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
The round is led by Daman Investments, with other investors including Cartography Capital, Epic Angels, Wahed Ventures, Accelerate Prosperity and several business angels.
—David Prosser, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Parnes reports that Cox has bucked common political rhetoric again with a call for better angels.
—Jared Gans, The Hill, 17 Sep. 2025
Norway’s princess, Märtha Louise, claims to be a clairvoyant who can communicate with angels.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
And every tabloid has a different tidbit, so the angels could attend vicariously.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2025
Charlie is already in paradise with the angels.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for angels
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The slaughter of the innocents that follows the birth of Jesus in the Book of Matthew is depicted by limp infants that Gaudí modelled on casts of actual stillborn babies.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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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
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Compared to their forerunners in the tsarist era, with their party congresses held abroad, their executive committees, and their active recruitment in imperial Russia’s universities, Soviet dissidents remained a comparatively small and informal conglomeration of activists.—
Benjamin Nathans
September 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
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An online fundraiser for Bray and his wife Yesenia Barragan, who is also a Rutgers professor, has raised more than $42,000 as of Wednesday, and a search of donors reveals that the pair have significant support from their peers.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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The event featured a dinner, entertainment, registration for donors, patient stories, an auction and more.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
15 Oct. 2025
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Buying a textile with wool — don’t forget that the wool is coming from sheep.—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
13 Oct. 2025
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Relax by the wood-burning stove or in the bath that offers superb vistas of the water—all while keeping an eye out for wildlife, including sheep.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
12 Oct. 2025
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By the late 2010s, the precursors of ChatGPT, Gemini, and DALL-E were spluttering to life, making real the future that the Army had envisioned in World War II.—
Angus Fletcher,
Big Think,
29 Sep. 2025
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And the precursors for that reality may already be in motion, Metzger noted.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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These could be harbingers of bigger things to come.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
13 Oct. 2025
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One of the most worrisome harbingers of future affordability is that Florida added more than 700,000 units with gross rents higher than $1,200 monthly between 2012 and 2022.—
Jeffrey Steele,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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But the arrangement could create an appearance of a conflict of interest, as Anderson’s office has steered public dollars to a business owned by a family who have been his political benefactors.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Oct. 2025
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Signed last week, on the same day that the Department of Justice indicted James Comey, it is designed to facilitate the transfer of a social-media platform with a hundred and seventy million American users to a consortium that features several of the President’s political and financial benefactors.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Experimental systems have supported premature lambs in liquid environments for days or weeks by connecting umbilical vessels to external oxygenation circuits.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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McCarty had seen a number of ewes and lambs but no rams.—
Tim Kelly,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Angels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/angels. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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