angel
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His lawyer, Gary Allan KC, reiterated Robertson's own comment that he was "no angel" but questioned whether jurors could "hand on heart" conclude that they do not believe him.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
It opens in a London pub, where Rodrigo is besotted by a boy who "looks like an angel on the walls of Versailles".
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
The state continues to see an unprecedented uptick in poisonings and deaths associated with death cap, or Amanita phalloides; and western destroying angel, Amanita ocreata, mushrooms, according to the California Department of Public Health.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
The hajj's last day is also the start of Eid al-Adha, the festival celebrating Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son before the angel Gabriel intervened and offered him a goat in Ishmael's place.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
“And no screaming ladies either,” the angel said.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Children arrived naughty and finished like angels, full of ideas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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
In the message, recorded before the crash, Javed described a dream: two angels had come for him and, before taking him away, bathed him in a fragrance that smelled of roses.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
To portray Goliath’s origin story, actors were filmed on green screens and AI was used to generate a mythical sequence involving dark sky, rain, mountains and angels with wings.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
This time when I walked into Gardner’s Pharmacy, the ringing bell on the door sounded like a choir of angels singing “Hallelujah.”
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Through his second largest philanthropy, the General Education Board, he angeled Progressive Education.
From Time Magazine Archive
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