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as in pacifist
a person who opposes war or warlike policies
the doves were in favor of using the surplus to improve the nation's schools and not its weapons systems
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as in angel
an innocent or gentle person
he's a dove who wouldn't hurt a fly
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Recent Examples of dove
The jersey also includes a jock tag depicting a dove carrying an olive branch, while the Pride’s familiar purple trims the collar, cuffs and player lettering.
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Kyle Foley, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2026
The dove white tweed jacket was crafted in an off-white wool blend.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 25 Feb. 2026
Mourning doves, chickadees, finches, and sparrows love their nutritious seeds.
—Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2026
For Marta Alamo, unity looks like a white dove with outstretched wings.
—Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 20 Feb. 2026
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Kyle Foley, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2026
The dove white tweed jacket was crafted in an off-white wool blend.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 25 Feb. 2026
Mourning doves, chickadees, finches, and sparrows love their nutritious seeds.
—Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2026
For Marta Alamo, unity looks like a white dove with outstretched wings.
—Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 20 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dove
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The Anabaptists were a radical nonconformist sect that took the egalitarian, pacifist, and renunciatory injunctions of the Bible seriously and tried to organize communal living, before being ruthlessly persecuted by the authorities and other Protestant sects.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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Still, Bale has a couple of nice moments as Mandras, a Greek fisherman who loses his fiancée (Penelope Cruz) to a mandolin-playing pacifist (Cage, of course) but, all told, is pretty reasonable about it.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2026
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Take the time to find your incentive to push you along the journey that the angel number 000 is signaling.—
Olivia Munson,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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The victim's family and friends showed up at court wearing t-shirts with DeFrances' picture on them wrapped in angel's wings.—
Erika Stanish,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Further, forcing suburban commuter cities to sit at the table with the city of San Diego controlling 42 of 100 votes on the SANDAG board is like two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.—
John Franklin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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Your littlest charges will marvel at the size of the camels, tortoises and giraffes lumbering about the zoo’s meandering paths, and then eagerly pet goats and sheep in the farmyard.—
Susan McDonald,
The Providence Journal,
26 Mar. 2026
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The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and much of the Iranian security hierarchy, would not survive the first day of bombing; neither would about a hundred and seventy-five innocents in the southern city of Minab, most of them children.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
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As Archangel Michael, Devyn Wade is both boyishly sweet and terrified as a devil’s advocate, cautiously questioning God’s decisions and her history of killing the innocent.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Mar. 2026
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Its shawarma line includes beef, chicken and lamb options.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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Negotiations had stalled in 2023 over certain disagreements, with Canberra seeking greater quotas for lamb and beef exports to Europe while the EU pushed for better access to Australia’s critical minerals and lower tariffs.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Dove.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dove. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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