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Recent Examples of innocent
Adjective
Cata and her sister Eva (Martina García) are spending a carefree summer at their grandparents’ house in Mallorca when suddenly their beloved grandmother Catalina (Marta Angelat) dies, and their innocent holiday, as well as this movie, takes a tragic turn. Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025 In his photo, own Wade is smiling, looking mostly innocent — if a bit mischievous. Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
Reflexive, long fashionable anti-Israelism is a given, and horror at the suffering of innocents who are now dying by the thousands is understandable. Jeff Robbins, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2025 Settling longstanding differences over governance is one thing, an immediate increase in lifesaving humanitarian aid to prevent the deaths of innocents is quite another. Peter Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for innocent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for innocent
Adjective
  • Gerald Genta Minute Repeater A pure minute repeater – without other high watchmaking functions as part of a grand-complication package – is a rare thing.
    Carol Besler, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Invisible pollutants unleashed To simulate real-world conditions, the researchers placed unused masks in beakers of ultra-pure water and left them at room temperature for 24 hours.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Outside of health care and social assistance, a sector in which job growth seems to be unaffected by over-all trends, the downturn in hiring extended across large parts of the economy, with fewer than half of all private-sector industries adding jobs last month.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The 2026 visa cap has already been reached, meaning current sponsorships are unaffected.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Their attempts at political discourse often veered toward the group speaking in vague, naïve universalisms.
    Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 4 Sep. 2025
  • At times on Saturday, Bremen were terribly naive, exhibiting all the fragility expected of a team built from inexperienced players.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Ultimately harmless, this was the piece of the bomb that would ignite the charge in the main body of the projectile.
    Michael Jerome Plunkett September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This compulsion to celebrate himself in general, and to celebrate such a juvenile, harmless gesture in particular, should be yet another reason to lose all patience with Lee Raybon.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The league might be skeptical that the Clippers were merely ignorant of the Aspiration-Leonard relationship and question why the team didn’t undertake more diligence.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Conversations that would’ve otherwise been fun and intellectually stimulating will start to feel childish and ignorant.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The idea that that's now a thing that angels have to get involved with because so many people are texting and driving.
    Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Horns blare, and an angel appears floating above the chaos.
    Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And how many guiltless prisoners there are here!
    Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Many fans found its generally joyous treatment of Miranda’s guiltless affair with Che, a nonbinary comedian, in the first season off-putting.
    Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
Adjective
  • Algorithmic Literacy requires genuine technical comprehension of AI capabilities, constraints, and ethical implications.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But despite a certain staginess, and a tendency for the plot to suddenly stop to make way for the acting, Hedda is actually a genuine attempt to mine something new from the old text, a compelling fusion of Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn and Stephen Fry’s Bright Young Things.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025

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