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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 Fed’s Powell is not a dove.
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Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
Trevor Tamura dove for the volleyball to keep it from hitting the sand.
—Rachel Hale, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
Hunting was allowed only from noon to sunset and the 15-bird daily bag limit prevented the harvest of more than two mourning and white-tipped doves apiece.
—Matt Wyatt, Houston Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2026
First, many Iran doves seriously underestimated the risks and costs of attempting to coexist with the regime.
—Jamie McIntyre, The Washington Examiner, 26 Mar. 2026
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Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
Trevor Tamura dove for the volleyball to keep it from hitting the sand.
—Rachel Hale, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
Hunting was allowed only from noon to sunset and the 15-bird daily bag limit prevented the harvest of more than two mourning and white-tipped doves apiece.
—Matt Wyatt, Houston Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2026
First, many Iran doves seriously underestimated the risks and costs of attempting to coexist with the regime.
—Jamie McIntyre, The Washington Examiner, 26 Mar. 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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The oil painting depicts a towering John the Baptist pouring water on the head of an even larger, almost shimmering Jesus; in the background, God, angels and cherubs look down from heaven in an ecstatic frenzy.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
17 Apr. 2026
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In general, fresh pasta cooks in two to four minutes, while thin varieties such as angel hair cook in one to two minutes.—
Olivia McIntosh,
Martha Stewart,
16 Apr. 2026
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The work, collected by Yves Saint Laurent and Paul Bergé before drawing the interest of Karl Lagerfeld, Peter Marino, and Tom Ford, offers a fantasy of les enfants laughing while perched on one of Lalanne’s woolly sheep in a sprawling Parisian apartment, Right Bank parents with Left Bank kids.—
David Lê,
Curbed,
20 Apr. 2026
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As part of the Great Exchange, which spanned from 1492 to 1640, Europeans brought over cows, sheep, and goats.—
Karla Walsh,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Apr. 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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Divide the warm hummus among bowls and top with the lamb.—
Kelly McCarthy,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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At Essence, the flagship restaurant, culinary director Paul Froggatt brings his Franco-British training to bear on tasting menus showcasing New Zealand produce, like Fiordland lobster and hyperlocal lamb, in sometimes whimsical ways.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Dove.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dove. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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