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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
Can the ferocious ingenue claw her way from Cheetah girl to Stardust Goddess?
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 3 May 2025
And Williamson, at 60, is no longer an industry ingenue.
—Ashley Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
Coincidentally, Manville played the ingenue Cécile de Volanges in the original 1985 production for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2025
The claims against Combs echo those against Weinstein – that McKinney was a bright young ingenue whose star was on the rise and was set up with the music mogul by someone else in the industry, seemingly for career advancement.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 3 June 2025
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 3 May 2025
And Williamson, at 60, is no longer an industry ingenue.
—Ashley Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
Coincidentally, Manville played the ingenue Cécile de Volanges in the original 1985 production for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2025
The claims against Combs echo those against Weinstein – that McKinney was a bright young ingenue whose star was on the rise and was set up with the music mogul by someone else in the industry, seemingly for career advancement.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 3 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingenue
Noun
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The shepherds were visited by an angel and guided to the infant king.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
11 July 2025
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Showrunner Tony Tost was truly an angel, and everyone on board were such freak-ass nerds about TV and cinema, and were so excited to share all these reference points with me, like Colombo.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 July 2025
Noun
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In Fitzgerald’s novel, the wealthy socialite who runs down Myrtle escapes all responsibility, while two additional innocents end up dead.—
Jordan Runtagh,
People.com,
27 June 2025
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That’s been another disgraceful indignity visited upon the victims of terrorists: the support on American campuses for those behind attacks on innocents in Israel.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
22 June 2025
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But one vivid, if unlikely, detail has endured: Her traveling companions were some 11,000 virgins.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Apr. 2025
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The colonized lands are conceptualized of as virgin or empty, or populated by savages and barbarians who amount to less-than-human types who must make way for the settlers.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
21 May 2025
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Set to open its doors in 2026, the future Wisconsin Film Office has a business side to its pitch – but Deming describes more of a seed fund for a fledgling indie film scene.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
10 July 2025
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Schumer marveled at the camera sweeping from the golden fields to the blue sky, symbolizing the fledgling Superman’s look toward the future.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 July 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 22 Jul. 2025.
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