angel
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Singer and songwriter Brandi Carlile called Parton “an angel on my shoulder and also the devil on my other shoulder.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
He and his wife, Karlie Kloss, the onetime Victoria’s Secret angel, split time between New York and Miami, where they share a 15,000 square-foot, waterfront mansion with their three children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The customer bought an angel figure, fashioned with tears on her face and arms holding her chest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
"He has the voice of an angel," said Jose Luis.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
At his side, the angel carried the same kind of jagged bronze sword the Boreads had, and Jason’s last encounter with them hadn’t gone so well.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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Even if one is coming, “of that day and that hour knoweth no man,” not even “the angels which are in heaven.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
“The Shards” is more problematic: Mr. Ellis has been recycling his depraved teen angels long enough that the show, a collaboration with Ryan Murphy, becomes parody, even comedy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
It is also where Abraham Lincoln, as the nation stood on the brink of Civil War, appealed to “the better angels of our nature.”
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
Usually these clips follow a set pattern: a man in uniform embraces his loved ones, then slowly walks up a staircase into a blue sky, often surrounded by angels.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
She had asked Baba Joseph if angels were the same as ancestral spirits, and he had been vague about it.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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Through his second largest philanthropy, the General Education Board, he angeled Progressive Education.
From Time Magazine Archive
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