redeemer
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Manuel Cuesta, a 63-year-old historian and opposition activist, recalled seeing Castro as a "redeemer" in his youth who had made Cuba what it aspired to be.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
In the scarcely less crucial role of Biff, the Lomans’ wayward elder son, on whom Willy has pinned his hopes as the redeemer of his own failures, Mr. Abbott is a revelation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
After a revolutionary announces himself the Madhi, or the redeemer, a war breaks out in 19th-century Sudan over the legitimacy of his messianic claim.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
Mitchell sees himself in the role of redeemer — not destroyer.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2022
The priest’s vestments shone with the white and gold jubilation of the church celebrating the birth of its redeemer.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
But he is interrupted by his Middle Eastern neighbors, who become his friends and redeemers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2017
The ride in Hagen not only made Dujardin a contender for gold in London but also announced her—and Hester—as potential redeemers of dressage.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016
It looks like a straight choice between Profumo/Aitken and Archer/Black, and most people, you feel, would be on the side of the redeemers.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2013
Desperate people tend to latch onto sudden redeemers, but those sudden redeemers usually fade away pretty fast.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2011
It seems that in those troubled days the cities and countryside were infested by madmen, messiahs, redeemers, preaching the speedy destruction of the world.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
