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patron saints

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plural of patron saint

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someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation around the statehouse he's known as the patron saint of partisan politics

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Recent Examples of patron saints The crochet, the suede, the fringe; its patron saints Kate Moss and Sienna Miller. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 5 July 2026 Its patron saints, in modern times, have been Portuguese winger Ricardo Quaresma and Croatian midfielder Luka Modrić. — Tom Williams, New York Times, 13 June 2026 Spanish towns and cities also regularly honor local patron saints with fiestas. — Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2026 Anybody heading into the spring with a seasonably cheerful and rosy view of world affairs will be well-met by the return of the patron saints of drone metal, pulling on their cloaks to herald our everlong winter. — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 23 Mar. 2026 There the grave still is, of Ireland’s three patron saints, under a granite slab added at the start of the 20th century to stop pilgrims stealing soil from the site. — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 17 Mar. 2026

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OpenAI's choice to end developers' access to its models via Cursor is not a first in the industry.

— Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026
This is why the results from the MHS research preview and Anthropic’s frontier AI models are so meaningful.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026

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Trying to fit Hinduism into Western categories of theisms diverges from the tradition’s diverse history of ideas while mixing internal understandings with European perspectives and categories.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
Algorithms can be implemented in different programming languages, in much the same way that ideas can be expressed in English, Mandarin, or Arabic.

— Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026

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Silvester’s concept became the Falcon Study, a new interpretation of the original developed by his San Diego start-up Q7 Yacht Designs, with naval architecture by Dutch firm Dykstra, known for its work on the series of nascent J-Class examples.

— Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2026
There are already examples in other sports of athletes moving between professional and college systems without producing the same alarm.

— Joshua Hong, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026

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