unafraid

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Recent Examples of unafraid She is replaced by Córdoba's bold, fiery Ana, an aspiring journalist unafraid to speak her mind and an accomplished student who has already been accepted to Columbia on a full ride — so what's holding her back? Shania Russell, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2025 Where the original version was hypnotic in its restraint, the remix feels like velvet being unraveled—deeper, warmer, and unafraid of the pause. Shelby Stewart, Essence, 6 June 2025 This was a bird so docile and unafraid of environmental threats it was hunted out of existence in less than 100 years. Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025 The result is a highly affecting film unafraid to exact an emotional toll. Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for unafraid
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Adjective
  • Bloom’s bravest moment of June 16, 1904, comes a few pages later: —Mendelssohn was a jew and Karl Marx and Mercadante and Spinoza.
    Benjamin Hale June 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
  • Sure enough, the seemingly eternally brave Achilles was killed by an arrow to his heel during the Trojan War.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Fleet-footed, fearless and forward-thinking, 20-year-old Yildiz is a box of tricks.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 18 June 2025
  • Great leaders are not fearless beings who stoically snub their noses at terror.
    Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • Ter Stegen is determined to stay at Barca, where he is settled on a personal level and ready to challenge for the No 1 spot.
    Pol Ballús, New York Times, 27 June 2025
  • Set in the working-class outskirts of L.A., Lolita follows Jesús (Alexis Vazquez), an openly gay man recently released from prison after serving a nine-year sentence for a nonviolent drug offense, who is determined to reclaim his life and reunite with his daughter.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • The event series is based on The Old Testament’s Book of Genesis and told through the eyes of the courageous and passionate yet flawed women whose descendants would shape three of the world’s great faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 27 June 2025
  • Occasionally we are confronted with stories, like the founding of Knox College [established in 1837 by abolitionists committed to educating women and people of color] , where some person or some group of people chose the unpopular, but morally courageous path.
    Hanna Hart, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025

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“Unafraid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unafraid. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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