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Recent Examples of cherub
All that’s missing is cherub wings.
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Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2025
Nowhere is the dream of pastoral harmony regained through scientific knowledge more beautifully realized than in Boucher’s nocturne of a cherub, telescope in hand, contemplating the moon.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
Above the doorways, delicate gold cherubs peer down, which Trump was keen to display as a symbolic gesture.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
There are mysterious initials, a cherub wearing a balaclava.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2025
Nowhere is the dream of pastoral harmony regained through scientific knowledge more beautifully realized than in Boucher’s nocturne of a cherub, telescope in hand, contemplating the moon.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
Above the doorways, delicate gold cherubs peer down, which Trump was keen to display as a symbolic gesture.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
There are mysterious initials, a cherub wearing a balaclava.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cherub
Noun
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Healey is not, of course, a real saint in the religious tradition and beliefs of Roman Catholics like Mother Teresa or Joan of Arc.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
19 June 2025
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The Vatican has announced that the first millennial saint will be canonized in September.—
Nick Butler,
FOXNews.com,
13 June 2025
Noun
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The colonized lands are conceptualized of as virgin or empty, or populated by savages and barbarians who amount to less-than-human types who must make way for the settlers.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
21 May 2025
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Hotlines in Ecuador and Argentina The statue of a virgin, la Virgen del Panecillo, looms over the city of Quito, the capital of Ecuador.—
Marta Martínez,
NPR,
8 June 2025
Noun
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Unleashed like a locomotive at the top of the stretch at Churchill Downs and Saratoga Race Course, this hard-closing colt ran past the front runners with relative ease.—
Danny Brewer,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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His fillies, not his colts, have been the stars of the prolific barn’s sophomore class.—
Kevin Modesti,
Oc Register,
7 June 2025
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“Cherub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cherub. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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