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Recent Examples of sainted The jobs that Biden wanted and did create are the same ones that Trump hates: wind, solar, electric vehicles, the usual gang of sainted Democratic projects. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025 And the sainted Barack Obama Administration, which launched an extended bombing campaign in Libya, did not get congressional authorization. Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 26 June 2025 The newest member of the new-look Red Sox is an aggressive, fireplug of a player, which is why Cora keeps comparing him to the sainted Dustin Pedroia. Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sainted
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sainted
Adjective
  • After all, Stabler was married with 300 children, and a devout Catholic to boot.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Rounding out the mourning quartet is their sister Anne (Emily Fairn), physically sickly, emotionally brittle and unequivocally devout.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The mobius-thinking at times almost seems like Medieval Zen, what with the emphasis on emptiness and silent meditation, and in fact that was what the Church fathers objected to most: too much quiet, solitary contemplation, not enough pious instruction.
    Jon Raymond August 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • This may well sound like something that would’ve been played as a pious Christian allegory in another era.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The fire ignited first on the property of the Twelve Tribes religious cult, which has a compound on Eldorado Drive, near the Marshall Mesa Open Space.
    Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Mandato cited writings of several founding fathers, including John Adams, Daniel Webster and John Witherspoon, who argued the country's constitutional system cannot endure without a moral and religious population, and Christian principals are conducive to good citizenship.
    Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And Sylvia’s saintly husband Charlie (Luke Macfarlane) again grows frustrated that his wife keeps prioritizing her college buddy over him.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Martin Scorsese will be back to tell more saintly tales.
    Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • In 2016, at least $4,000 in cash donations were stolen from the ICM after the mosque's celebration of Eid al-Fitr, a holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
    Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Wahlberg plays a holy fool in Boogie Nights, our naïve but well-endowed guide through the heyday of theatrical pornography and its decline into something cheaper and tawdrier courtesy of the triumph of VHS.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That Maestro screening featured the vociferous participation of Leonard Bernstein’s surviving family members, as well as Cooper himself watching silently from the audience (the strike prevented him from doing more), a perfect companion to Cooper’s alternately reverent and over-the-top biopic.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The atmosphere is reverent and energized, with attendees standing in collective praise hours before the formal program begins.
    Amanda Castro Mandy Taheri Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • New York’s venerable Manhattan Theatre Club has selected Associate Artistic Director Nicki Hunter to take over as Artistic Director when Lynne Meadow steps aside on December 1.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
  • And as if a constant stream of social media vitriol wasn’t enough of an insult to the venerable lawns, they are subjected to constant meteorological insults as well.
    Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Sainted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sainted. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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