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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 parade, a 70-minute affair that included marching soldiers, formations of helicopters and fighter jets and an endcap release of 80,000 doves, showcased China’s latest military hardware such as missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads.
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Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 3 Sep. 2025
And even though Powell has opened the door to a rate cut next month, other policymakers remain more hawkish, while further weakness in the labor market could make some doves even more dovish.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
My dress had a pristine white top with an attached skirt in dove grey, splotched with tropical-style petal pink flowers.
—Amanda Uhle
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Sparrows, mourning doves, pigeons, towhees, and juncos will all fly over to enjoy an easy meal.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2025
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Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 3 Sep. 2025
And even though Powell has opened the door to a rate cut next month, other policymakers remain more hawkish, while further weakness in the labor market could make some doves even more dovish.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
My dress had a pristine white top with an attached skirt in dove grey, splotched with tropical-style petal pink flowers.
—Amanda Uhle
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Sparrows, mourning doves, pigeons, towhees, and juncos will all fly over to enjoy an easy meal.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dove
Noun
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Every version of me is a pacifist.—
Zadie Smith,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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André Weil: Pacifist Border Crosser As geopolitical tensions increased worldwide in the 1930s, mathematician André Weil, a committed pacifist, sought to avoid French military service and emigrated to the U.S. Weil was on a research trip to Finland when World War II broke out in 1939.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
20 Aug. 2025
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He will be killed by his brother, the angel Ejllael (Steve Noh), for bowing to a human.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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Capellini is a long, thin noodle that is thinner than spaghettini (thin spaghetti) and thicker than angel hair.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Oct. 2025
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And the Nashville Chew Crew, a herd of sheep, has been working for the city’s parks department since 2017.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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The study team made use of somatic cell nuclear transfer, a technique that was famously used to clone a sheep named Dolly in 1997.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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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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However, last night the girls came over and OP cooked a lamb roast for her partner's son's birthday.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 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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“Dove.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dove. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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