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Recent Examples of paladin For the past three years, the paladin has answered the call, taking on the burgeoning challenge and collecting tokens along the path until every point has been reached. Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 11 Apr. 2025 Players assume responsibility for characters with powerful abilities: an elf necromancer from a family of aristocrats, say, or a half-orc paladin atoning for past crimes. Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024 Chris Pine's winning take on a bard is the driving force here, but Michelle Rodriguez's barbarian and (an underutilized) Regé-Jean Page's paladin steal plenty of scenes by really hewing true to their characters' alignment chart. Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2023 The problem was audiences who weren’t well-versed in paladins, druids and bards mostly steered clear. Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for paladin
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Noun
  • Host a challenge forum with a proponent, a skeptic, and a synthesizer.
    Curt Steinhorst, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • To answer this question, Lam looks to the ancient Chinese philosopher Han Fei, an important proponent of the school of thought known as Legalism.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Huffman, 61, has been an advocate of strong climate change and environmental protection policies since his state Assembly tenure from 2006 to 2012, and was a member of the Marin Municipal Water District for a dozen years before that.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The royal has been a longtime advocate of the benefits of spending time outdoors.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The president sought to show supporters that the achievements of his administration would be wiped out if Republican opponent Mitt Romney won the election.
    Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Despite facing challenges to get the march off the ground this year, supporters came bearing flags, signs and spirit on the eve of the Boise Pride Festival, which takes place this weekend.
    Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As one careful exponent of technical legal craft addressing another, Burroughs hit the mark.
    Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The single bit flip can increase the exponent value by 16.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • The sound does much of the work in action sequences obscured by blinding snowstorms and flashing emergency lights, punctuated by creative acts of accidental self-harm that save our protagonists from certain death more than once.
    Katie Rife, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Through the first-person narration of his protagonist, Nicholas, a teenager suddenly besieged by anxiety, Clune conveys with uncanny vividness what a panic attack feels like.
    Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Paladin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paladin. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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