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Our titular heroine is only 13 years old when her escapade begins – a little more mature than most of the director’s protagonists, but still innocent enough not to be jaded.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
And that’s just at that young age where you are so innocent, it’s all just looking at each other and feeling each other’s presence and falling in love without the complications of a relationship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
What follows isn’t merely speculative anthropology but tragedy: the extinction of a mode of being at once more limited and more innocent than our own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
It also happened to staff at energy trading company Enron, which, in the comparatively innocent days of 2002, was briefly the world’s biggest and most spectacular bankruptcy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
But Morse definitely suspected that whatever had happened in the Gulf, the Americans were hardly innocent bystanders.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
"This land has paid a heavy price. It has seen many of its children buried. It has borne witness to the suffering of children and innocents," added the leader of the world's Roman Catholics.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
There is a bleak sameness to their contents—desperate pleas to be spared as innocents, loyal to the party and wrongly accused.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
It’s unfortunate that innocents are being swept up in mass immigration raids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025
It also asked police to stop harassing innocents.
From BBC ● May 28, 2025
Their battle will be waged not against the Erudite- Dauntless army but against Erudite innocents and the knowledge they have worked so hard to acquire.”
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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