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paladin

[pal-uh-din] / ˈpæl ə dɪn /
NOUN
fighter for cause
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In her review, AP’s Jocelyn Noveck said it works “surprisingly, sometimes delightfully well — even if you have no clue what a paladin or Red Wizard or Harper is.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2023

Then we have Regé-Jean Page's Xenk Yendar, a paladin so devout and good that it makes him insufferable – which is precisely how paladins should come across in mixed company.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023

Regé-Jean Page’s Xenk is one who is at first treated with mistrust, but fans will know that a paladin knight ultimately fights for good.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2023

Lionel evolves a little too conveniently from misfit to paladin, from ally of the marginal and oppressed to their would-be savior.

From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2019

Do we not read in quaint old chronicle of that paladin of a filibuster, Revenau de Lussan, who, in 1685, put Panama to ransom and then occupied the town of Queaquilla?

From Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Rouse Larus

Then we have Regé-Jean Page's Xenk Yendar, a paladin so devout and good that it makes him insufferable – which is precisely how paladins should come across in mixed company.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023

The stakes have never been higher for the Voltron alliance, which the trailer shows pretty well — it’s set up as a series of radio transmissions from the 5 paladins reacting to the coming threat.

From The Verge ● Oct. 8, 2018

As two of the world's most important central bankers, Bernanke and King were members of an exclusive group of economic paladins, whose policies and even personal pronouncements could sway the world's financial markets in seconds.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2014

Whistle-blowers are our paladins and they need more protection.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 21, 2011

Perhaps there was something childish about all the paladins of Arthur’s story—if being simple b the same as childishness.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White


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