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Recent Examples of innocent
Adjective
In his video, Call distances himself from his friend while also heaping praise on Lampers, and reminding viewers that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2025 Still, that discomfort runs through the 71-minute movie in the characters’ bid to tear through the bars of Krakow, preying on innocent revellers and luring them to their deaths. Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
Human rights advocates, meanwhile, warn that the crime crackdown has resulted in tens of thousands of innocents being caught in a dragnet. Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 22 Aug. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for innocent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for innocent
Adjective
  • Well, despite Peaches dying, all Robbie got was a massive load of pure fentanyl.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Soon, boundary-free mowing took hold, powered by new technologies like pure vision, UWB, and RTK—each with merits and drawbacks.
    Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • While Kalitta seemed unaffected by the incident, Stewart took a while to get out of his dragster.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • For example, many well-hydrated athletes experience cramps, while others competing in hot, humid conditions remain unaffected.
    Michael Hales, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • By enjoying the exciting spectacle, their fans have willingly become mindless followers—idol worshippers who are too misguided, and naive, to see they’re being led toward their own destruction.
    Yvonne Kim, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Speaking of burnout, that was the ultimate destination for the generation that came before, singed by their naive belief that adopting a neo-Stakhanovite approach to work and careers would pay off.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Beet juice may cause pink urine or red stool, which is harmless.
    Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 12 Sep. 2025
  • For every community of mass-shooter fandoms, there is another that is silly, joyous, productive, or totally harmless.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 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
  • These white ensembles with feather motifs rendered the models like angels on earth.
    Blue Carreon, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • As the show went on, the Winchester brothers uncovered a much larger battle between heaven and hell, joined by Castiel (Misha Collins), an angel who becomes their ally and family, and often clashing with figures like Crowley (Mark Sheppard), the witty king of hell.
    Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 13 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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