redeemer
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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
Grant this, we beseech thee, O merciful Father, through Jesus Christ, our mediator and redeemer.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2022
Mitchell sees himself in the role of redeemer — not destroyer.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2022
Sister Loretta was still staring balefully at the crucified redeemer.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Selling Federal bonds dilutes the pool of dollars in circulation when those bonds are redeemed if no taxes were used to pay redeemers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2018
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
There is that which is older than man and his redeemers, higher than the stars, vast as the Immensities, ancient as the Eternities themselves, and in this incarnation man may see God.
From Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles by Sullivan, W. R. Washington