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saint

noun as in holy person

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"In my opinion, according to the scriptures of the saints, this war hasn't even started yet."

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I have been called the “king of weird” and the “patron saint of oddball cars.”

“Your father was kind of a saint, you know,” Christopher Walken tells Ben.

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Cheering would have been the sainted Leon Panetta, former congressman, defense secretary and CIA chief.

Church bells rang out and fireworks burst in the sky Sunday as Venezuela -- mired in crisis -- welcomed the canonization of two of its people as saints.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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