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Recent Examples of innocence Smollett has always maintained his innocence. Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2025 After the Hunt is not arguing on behalf of anyone’s innocence, however. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025 Jackson himself was never convicted of any wrongdoing tied to these accusations and consistently maintained his innocence up until his death in 2009. Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 25 Sep. 2025 My innocence may be my superpower. Jane Ciabattari september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for innocence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for innocence
Noun
  • Smile Hair Clinic aims to achieve the highest density by maintaining naturalness.
    Wyles Daniel, jsonline.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The naturalness bias is deeply ingrained in Kennedy’s MAHA campaign, which aims to improve public health by returning to a more natural lifestyle.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Like in One Battle After Another, DiCaprio played buffoonish and vaguely incompetent, but Scorsese doesn’t weaponize his ignorance for laughs.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Also, don’t mistake your own ignorance & apathy as universal or admirable.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The experiment relies on detecting the faint interactions between hypothetical dark matter particles and atoms of liquid xenon, a noble gas chosen for its purity and stability.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
  • And yet, Lightfoot’s stubborn purity is surely why listeners recognize his sincerity in memorializing such a tragic event.
    John U. Bacon, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The pieces serve as grounding tools, a nod to simplicity in design but layered with weighty symbolism.
    Essence, Essence, 1 Oct. 2025
  • With its combination of simplicity, stability, and cost-efficiency, the kirigami parachute may soon find its place in both relief missions and advanced aerospace tests.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The earnestness and sincerity that characterized so much music from the late ’90s were overtaken by the sneering rage of nu metal.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2025
  • And yet, Lightfoot’s stubborn purity is surely why listeners recognize his sincerity in memorializing such a tragic event.
    John U. Bacon, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Innocence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innocence. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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