as in sheep
an innocent or gentle person
the new guys at football camp were lambs who hardly knew what awaited them
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Recent Examples of lamb
The main use case for an oval Dutch oven is for large cuts of meat like a rack of lamb.
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Emily Johnson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
Nana and Ramos came with heaps of out-of-the-world victuals—Levallois chicken, the best chicken in the world (handpicked on the farm by the butcher), or a leg of Levallois lamb that was every bit as incomparable.
—Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
No, not lamb innards, just bread that is sweet.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
Tennessee is among the states home to the highest number of Lone Star ticks, which can spread a disease that causes a potentially life-threatening allergy to meats like pork, beef and lamb.
—Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 16 Sep. 2025
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Emily Johnson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
Nana and Ramos came with heaps of out-of-the-world victuals—Levallois chicken, the best chicken in the world (handpicked on the farm by the butcher), or a leg of Levallois lamb that was every bit as incomparable.
—Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
No, not lamb innards, just bread that is sweet.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
Tennessee is among the states home to the highest number of Lone Star ticks, which can spread a disease that causes a potentially life-threatening allergy to meats like pork, beef and lamb.
—Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lamb
Noun
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And the Nashville Chew Crew, a herd of sheep, has been working for the city’s parks department since 2017.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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The study team made use of somatic cell nuclear transfer, a technique that was famously used to clone a sheep named Dolly in 1997.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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He will be killed by his brother, the angel Ejllael (Steve Noh), for bowing to a human.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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Capellini is a long, thin noodle that is thinner than spaghettini (thin spaghetti) and thicker than angel hair.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Oct. 2025
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The slaughter of the innocents that follows the birth of Jesus in the Book of Matthew is depicted by limp infants that Gaudí modelled on casts of actual stillborn babies.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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This lesson plan includes no discussion of how, in the name of socialism and equality, Cold War despots in Russia, Romania, Poland and other Eastern Bloc counties slaughtered innocents, seized property and sunk their countries into starvation-level poverty.—
Betsy McCaughey,
Boston Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Lamb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamb. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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