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or ingénue
as in angel
an innocent girl or young woman
In her latest film she plays the part of an ingenue.
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Recent Examples of ingenue
But Demi losing to an ingenue was a perfect Substance-worthy twist in itself.
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Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2025
The Academy loves a young ingenue, and so the narrative supporting her potential win on Oscar night has also had momentum.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Mar. 2025
So, how’s about that young ingenue in the flick out of Brooklyn’s Russian community, Mikey Madison (Rosberg)?
—Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
These hopes and expectations betrayed the innocence of ingenues.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025
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Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2025
The Academy loves a young ingenue, and so the narrative supporting her potential win on Oscar night has also had momentum.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Mar. 2025
So, how’s about that young ingenue in the flick out of Brooklyn’s Russian community, Mikey Madison (Rosberg)?
—Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
These hopes and expectations betrayed the innocence of ingenues.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ingenue
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingenue
Noun
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Muslims believe that as Abraham was about to sacrifice his son, an angel of God stopped him and gave him a ram to sacrifice in place of his son.—
Monica Haider,
CNN Money,
6 June 2025
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Signature brand pieces include amulets, angels, royal blue moonstones and more.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
6 June 2025
Noun
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If its sympathies can’t help but tilt a little toward the colonized, the film still plays like a nightmare in which every escalation kills more innocents and every victory comes at a horrible cost.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
22 Nov. 2024
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After decades of lycanthropy, Sir John is no longer a reluctant killer and has stopped chaining himself up during the full moon, now gleefully slaughtering innocents without a care in the world.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
22 Jan. 2025
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The funny thing is that most interpretations of Virgo have the virgin holding the ear in her right hand….Go figure.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
18 May 2025
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And, both classical and modern critics have pointed out that the original Hebrew of Isaiah 7:14, the prophecy that the Gospel writers cite to support their claim, makes reference not to a virgin, but literally to a young woman (almah).—
Jack Hanson,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Monroe’s declaration, coming from a republic that had fought a war of independence from its own colonial power not yet 50 years prior, also expressed solidarity with the fledgling democracies of South America, which had also won independence from European control.—
Whitney Eulich,
Christian Science Monitor,
30 May 2025
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Then, in 1967, he was recruited by Jeff Beck, formerly of the Yardbirds, to join the fledgling Jeff Beck Group as lead vocalist.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
27 May 2025
Noun
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Flecks of mica and pyrite and who knows what, but only fools and greenhorns mistake it for gold.—
John Archibald,
Southern Living,
25 May 2025
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The indestructible Gill, still strolling the fairways of the magazine, was more than welcoming to a greenhorn.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
Noun
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Smit-McPhee plays a hapless Scottish tenderfoot who teams with Fassbender's conflicted bounty hunter to track down his true love in the American West.—
and Kevin Jacobsen,
EW.com,
21 June 2024
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The tenderfoot Americans, with six rookies, eight guys yet to reach 30, and minimal scar tissue, won three of four foursomes in the morning to get to 9-3 and two of four fourball rounds in the afternoon to reach 11-5.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
25 Sep. 2021
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“Ingenue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingenue. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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