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paladin

[pal-uh-din] / ˈpæl ə dɪn /
NOUN
fighter for cause
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Marissa Roy, DSA’s pick for city attorney, played a gavel-carrying paladin looking to uphold the law.

From Los Angeles Times May 24, 2026

In her review, AP’s Jocelyn Noveck said it works “surprisingly, sometimes delightfully well — even if you have no clue what a paladin or Red Wizard or Harper is.”

From Seattle Times Aug. 20, 2023

"Bridgerton" established Page as the unattainable dreamboat everybody wants to be around, prime attributes for a paladin, a class requiring high charisma.

From Salon Mar. 31, 2023

Lionel evolves a little too conveniently from misfit to paladin, from ally of the marginal and oppressed to their would-be savior.

From New York Times Oct. 31, 2019

"Oh, for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come; When Roland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, At Roncesvalles died!"

From Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

Then we have Regé-Jean Page’s Xenk Yendar, a paladin so devout and good that it makes him insufferable – which is precisely how paladins should come across in mixed company.

From Salon Mar. 31, 2023

The stakes have never been higher for the Voltron alliance, which the trailer shows pretty well — it’s set up as a series of radio transmissions from the 5 paladins reacting to the coming threat.

From The Verge Oct. 8, 2018

As two of the world's most important central bankers, Bernanke and King were members of an exclusive group of economic paladins, whose policies and even personal pronouncements could sway the world's financial markets in seconds.

From BBC Dec. 28, 2014

Whistle-blowers are our paladins and they need more protection.

From Scientific American Jul. 21, 2011

Perhaps there was something childish about all the paladins of Arthur’s story—if being simple b the same as childishness.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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