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or ingénue
as in angel
an innocent girl or young woman
In her latest film she plays the part of an ingenue.
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Recent Examples of ingenue
Ortega is set to star as the ingenue pool hall amateur who learns the ways of lifelong pool hustler De Niro.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 May 2025
These hopes and expectations betrayed the innocence of ingenues.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025
The one-time ingenue made gallows humor out of her ruination, glorying in the cracks and croaks of her voice.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
But Demi losing to an ingenue was a perfect Substance-worthy twist in itself.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2025
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 May 2025
These hopes and expectations betrayed the innocence of ingenues.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025
The one-time ingenue made gallows humor out of her ruination, glorying in the cracks and croaks of her voice.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
But Demi losing to an ingenue was a perfect Substance-worthy twist in itself.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingenue
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hotlines in Ecuador and Argentina The statue of a virgin, la Virgen del Panecillo, looms over the city of Quito, the capital of Ecuador.—
Marta Martínez,
NPR,
8 June 2025
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Two solutions are already out of the gate: a thread blended from virgin and end-of-life materials that Chanel and other brands are already using, and a recycled leather used to create reinforcements inside bags and shoes.—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
9 June 2025
Noun
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Similarly, fledgling democracies and countries in crisis have looked to the U.S. as a model nation, a symbol of hope and source of aid.—
Jennifer Boulanger,
New York Daily News,
28 June 2025
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As an early example of this, Stephen Griffin, a constitutional law professor at Tulane Law School, points to the Quasi War, a limited naval conflict between the fledgling U.S. and its erstwhile Revolutionary War ally, France.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
23 June 2025
Noun
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Flecks of mica and pyrite and who knows what, but only fools and greenhorns mistake it for gold.—
John Archibald,
Southern Living,
25 May 2025
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The indestructible Gill, still strolling the fairways of the magazine, was more than welcoming to a greenhorn.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
Noun
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Smit-McPhee plays a hapless Scottish tenderfoot who teams with Fassbender's conflicted bounty hunter to track down his true love in the American West.—
and Kevin Jacobsen,
EW.com,
21 June 2024
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The tenderfoot Americans, with six rookies, eight guys yet to reach 30, and minimal scar tissue, won three of four foursomes in the morning to get to 9-3 and two of four fourball rounds in the afternoon to reach 11-5.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
25 Sep. 2021
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“Ingenue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingenue. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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