ingenue

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In these images Sellers—a comic giant at the height of his career—acts as an eager paparazzo chasing after the self-assured ingénue.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

She also found she was referencing the arc of an ingénue in a Jennifer Blowdryer book she nabbed in Silver Lake.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024

The last verse, and the album's closing words, are addressed to pop music's next young ingénue.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2024

Kelli O’Hara and Adam Guettel had the inkling more than 20 years ago, when she was a Broadway ingénue, working on what became her breakthrough Tony-nominated role in “Light in the Piazza.”

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2024

The invasion of Parliament, or what almost amounted to an invasion, was an affair of far greater importance than the abduction of an ingénue.

From Garrick's Pupil by Filon, Auguston