saint
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Magical realism was in its heyday, and Gabriel García Márquez was becoming its patron saint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Yet posterity knows this patron saint of the college English major as the father of economics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Her Elizabeth is neither martyr nor saint, just a woman who wants to live as she’s always lived for as long as she can.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Ceuta's regional government cancelled the city's annual patron saint festivities, which were due to begin on Saturday, due to the "current circumstances".
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
“It was the mother was the witch,” said the saint and continued with his story.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Antoni Gaudí’s Basilica Sagrada Família contains familiar components of that style: a Latin Cross layout, Gothic arches, cloisters, representations of saints and apostles, rose windows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Vietnam has had 117 people beatified and later canonised as saints, but the Church said this was the first time a beatification ceremony had been held in the country rather than at the Vatican.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
None of them are saints, and they’re not necessarily Goody Two-shoes.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
In the 1990s, Christianity began playing an even larger part in fashion, as the Virgin Mary and saints began to appear on garments.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
It’s a barren landscape, yet perfect; it’s the sort of desert the saints went into, so their minds would not be distracted by profusion.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Cheering would have been the sainted Leon Panetta, former congressman, defense secretary and CIA chief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
Every few years, Americans across the country are beleaguered with a Herculean task usually reserved for the sainted: They must think about Canada.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2025
This she did share with Queen Victoria, who held séances, yearning for a little chat with her beloved ectoplasmic late husband, the sainted Prince Albert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2024
Even the sainted John McCain and Ronald Reagan failed in their first attempts.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024
Call’s cuss words were taught to him by his sainted grandmother and tended to be as quaint as the clothes she made for him.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
Here is ... the sainting of two horrid conspirators!
From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker
O, such a pretty knack at painting, And all for soft’ning, and for sainting!
From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Edward Caldwell Moore
Vocabulary lists containing saint
World Religions
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Medieval Europe - Introductory
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Medieval Christendom, Lessons 1–2
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