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
The club, it seemed, had their great redeemer.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2025
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
I could go back and be his comforter—his pride; his redeemer from misery, perhaps from ruin.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
Is it thus that Spain, through you, returns the clemency and kindness with which we, the redeemers of this suffering people, have acted in like circumstances?
From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White
