Dove
Example Sentences
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Senior members of Fed who are seen as doves, all else being equal, tend to favor lower interest rates and worry less about inflation than members viewed as hawks.
From MarketWatch
Then I dove back into bed, because the air outside my blankets was horrible and cold.
From Literature
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On her necklace was a tiny pendant in the shape of a dove.
And two Americans: Kenyon, a wry, observant, skeptical humanist sculptor, perhaps a stand-in for Hawthorne himself; and Hilda, a New England Puritan painter—self-possessed, pious, unswervingly loyal, pure as a flight of doves.
The airline for years stuck with a one-size-fits-all approach that fell out of sync with competitors, which dove deeper into tiered fares and charging for different services as a way to drum up more profits.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.