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saint

noun as in holy person

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In a polarized environment, the elevation of a figure into a saint does more than honor the individual.

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Kirk was neither a demon nor a saint, and looking for the cause of his death in slogans and political statements is pointless — if you want to solve the problem.

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Kirk was no saint, but if his assassination makes us take a collective deep breath and figure out how to fix this fractured nation together, he will have truly died a martyr’s death.

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People in a Welsh village were left baffled after St George's Crosses, the symbol of England's patron saint and the country's flag, appeared around the area.

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But the best twist is when you realize how much you’ve come to care about these characters, be they saints or sinners or a bit of both.

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

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