dove

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Recent Examples of dove First baseman Jake Burger dove to stop the ball but to no avail. Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025 Local and regional community members gathered for a Memorial Day ceremony, which included a dove release, held on May 26 in the Veterans Honor Courtyard at La Colonia Community Center in Solana Beach. Del Mar Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2025 Those skills apparently translate fairly easily into urban environments, where Cooper’s hawks flit amid trees and concrete landscapes, stalking city pigeons and doves. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 May 2025 There will be speakers, a wreath presentation, dove release, torpedo display, patriotic music and more. Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for dove
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Noun
  • American pacifists and civil rights activists A. J. Muste and Bayard Rustin were part of that group.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 2 June 2025
  • Bloomsbury included pacifists, conscientious objectors, soldiers, and agents of empire.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Following an appearance on the U.K. entrepreneur pitch show Dragons Den - modelled on Shark Tank - the company gained an angel investor (Stephen Bartlett) and a lot of publicity.
    Trevor Clawson, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • Rob Reiner appears, as if from nowhere, as a heroic angel investor who seems heaven sent to help save the Bear.
    Marah Eakin, Vulture, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement Read more: How Netanyahu Pushed Trump Toward War That day, a shepherd posted cell phone footage of an Israeli C-130 low in the sky over Syria, sheep bells clanking over the roar of the engines.
    Karl Vick, Time, 19 June 2025
  • In the first of two clips, four sheep enter via a set of large, wide-open folding glass doors.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague accuse the 80-year-old political patriarch of carrying out a brutal war on drugs that killed possibly thousands of people, including many innocents and bystanders.
    Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 17 May 2025
  • Some rights groups say the death toll could be as high as 30,000 with innocents and bystanders often caught in the crossfire.
    Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Raw chicken kabobs were stored on top of raw lamb inside the meat display cooler, violating proper storage guidelines.
    Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 20 June 2025
  • According to Dermatologists By Brianna Peters A dish of lamb with a fresh herb salad at Ricard Camarena.
    Elizabeth Bennett, Vogue, 20 June 2025

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“Dove.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dove. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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