variants
or ingénues
as in angels
an innocent girl or young woman
In her latest film she plays the part of an ingenue.
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Recent Examples of ingenues
Our best ingenues would queue to star as Dora and Nora.
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Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
Seen on the likes of Pamela Anderson, Ariana Grande, and most recently, Vera Wang, the micro bang was first popularized in the 1950s by film ingenues like Audrey Hepburn.
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Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
6 Nov. 2025
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
Seen on the likes of Pamela Anderson, Ariana Grande, and most recently, Vera Wang, the micro bang was first popularized in the 1950s by film ingenues like Audrey Hepburn.
—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
6 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingenues
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So a crew of angels and one unruly human are on a mission to rescue every Black person and bring them to heaven.
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And, if men are deaf, the angels hear.
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Public health stats show maybe 5%-10% of those getting married in the United States are virgins at the altar.
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How many spells were cast, how many virgins were sacrificed, how many first-borns were murdered so that this could happen?
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Flecks of mica and pyrite and who knows what, but only fools and greenhorns mistake it for gold.
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That still leaves room for some newbies.
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While there was the all-returnee Big Brother All-Stars for season 22, CBS’ summer reality competition series was otherwise all-newbies all the time… until last summer, when the franchise decided for the first time in eight years to mix old and new contestants.
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Whatever conclusions investigators might reach, the loss of at least 50 souls, and the wounding of dozens more innocents, is an unbearable blow for any community.
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In his work, women were still ethereal innocents who had yet to become believable human beings.
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While most small backyard birds build nests out of reach of dogs, the noise and activity of your family pet playing outside is unnerving for nesting birds, so keep them away until the fledglings leave the nest if possible.
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Keeping pets indoors or supervised during nesting season can also help protect eggs and fledglings.
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Laurel Park The 2026 Preakness run at Laurel Park is now in the books and Winner Napoleon Solo has placed himself in the conversation as one of the top three-year-old colts in the country.
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The Preakness features a venue change to a 115-year-old track that has never hosted the event, a field of some of the best 3-year-old colts in the country and a couple of chances to make horse racing history.
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“Ingenues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingenues. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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