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Recent Examples of innocent
Adjective
Not just toward people like me, but toward innocent people here and abroad. Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025 Traveling back in time to the 1970s, air travel was something most Americans were innocent of. John Tamny, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
Remmick wants to pull Sammie’s music into his homogeneous blob of bloodsuckers, and likely use it to attract more innocents into the vampire circle. Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025 What kind of people approve of a government that extra-judicially kidnaps innocents and renders them into the hands of a foreign gulag—and then hides behind that government when ordered by an American court to bring them back? Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for innocent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for innocent
Adjective
  • As Electrek points out, the E-VO isn't a pure Honda product.
    Utkarsh Sood June 29, New Atlas, 29 June 2025
  • Add in the pure creativity and skill of Lucas Raymond and Alex DeBrincat (legit competitors in their own rights, albeit in smaller bodies), and the two-way play of Dylan Larkin and Nate Danielson, and the future forward lineup starts to look pretty balanced.
    Max Bultman, New York Times, 29 June 2025
Adjective
  • Both WestJet and Hawaiian Airlines said their operations were unaffected by the hacks.
    Sean Lyngaas, CNN Money, 28 June 2025
  • Russian Security Council deputy chairman of Dmitry Medvedev also said Iran's critical nuclear infrastructure appeared to be unaffected or to have sustained only minor damage.
    Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Modern takes on the tankini and boy short offer nostalgia without being too naive and are also seen from Candice Swaenpoel’s Topic of C line or Hunza G’s colorful styles.
    Emily Mercer, Footwear News, 27 June 2025
  • Yet such arguments are either geopolitically naive or disingenuous.
    Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • The parchment tube worm is a couple of inches long and about a half-inch wide and is harmless, Seid said.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2025
  • Generally, face yoga exercises are harmless, Alam said.
    Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • The former Fox host Tucker Carlson, who opposed such an operation, sparred with two boosters: the current Fox host Mark Levin, and the Republican senator Ted Cruz, whom Carlson revealed to be ignorant of basic facts about Iran in a clip that went viral.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 27 June 2025
  • Maybe LLMs get us 80% of the way there without any oversight, but skipping the context and being completely ignorant of what the machine is doing is typically not a good idea, partly for the reasons that the panelists laid out.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • Today's audiences—both Hispanic and non-Hispanic—are savvy, diverse, and crave genuine representation and storytelling.
    Isaac Mizrahi, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Coach Wall was a remarkable individual whose kindness and genuine spirit touched all who knew him.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 23 June 2025

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“Innocent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innocent. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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