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Recent Examples of Synonyms for naïfs
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Public health stats show maybe 5%-10% of those getting married in the United States are virgins at the altar.
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How many spells were cast, how many virgins were sacrificed, how many first-borns were murdered so that this could happen?
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Other animals that have been infested include sheep, goats and a dog.
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The 30 x 5-minute episode show sees Bitzer the sheep dog tasked with getting Timmy and his two best friends, Yabba and Apricot, to Mossy Bottom School safe and on time each morning against the odds, with the group regularly side-tracked on route.
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Whatever conclusions investigators might reach, the loss of at least 50 souls, and the wounding of dozens more innocents, is an unbearable blow for any community.
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In his work, women were still ethereal innocents who had yet to become believable human beings.
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Flecks of mica and pyrite and who knows what, but only fools and greenhorns mistake it for gold.
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While most small backyard birds build nests out of reach of dogs, the noise and activity of your family pet playing outside is unnerving for nesting birds, so keep them away until the fledglings leave the nest if possible.
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Keeping pets indoors or supervised during nesting season can also help protect eggs and fledglings.
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Dobbs even let her children get pet lambs.
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For years, the standard treatment has involved avoiding foods that come from cows, pigs and lambs while carrying an epinephrine injector in case of medical emergency.
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Our best ingenues would queue to star as Dora and Nora.
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Seen on the likes of Pamela Anderson, Ariana Grande, and most recently, Vera Wang, the micro bang was first popularized in the 1950s by film ingenues like Audrey Hepburn.
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That still leaves room for some newbies.
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While there was the all-returnee Big Brother All-Stars for season 22, CBS’ summer reality competition series was otherwise all-newbies all the time… until last summer, when the franchise decided for the first time in eight years to mix old and new contestants.
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“Naïfs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/na%C3%AFfs. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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