angel
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Parton plays an angel tasked with changing the mind and heart of a wealthy woman set on selling her humble hometown to a mall developer.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
I ditched the cans, not because I’m an angel about what I ingest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Her birthday, Feb. 22, makes the angel number 222 her “birthright,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
The KC said the 16-year-old was "not a misunderstood angel" but argued that Amen was "hunting" his client.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
“You see now, my queenly Blanche,” began Lady Ingram, “she encroaches. Be advised, my angel girl—and—”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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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
His San Gregorio Polyptych, painted in 1473, depicts the Virgin Mary holding an infant Jesus Christ, flanked by St Gregory and St Benedict as well as several angels.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 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
We can teach history honestly, elevate civics, vote, serve, listen and continue believing, as Lincoln urged us, in the better angels of our nature.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
This was, Nhamo learned, a call for the angels to come down from Mwari’s country and hover over the gathering.
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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