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Recent Examples of gent
The owner of the place, a stocky elder gent who reminded me of the environmentalist Yvon Chouinard, lived in an old stone house on the property.
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Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
Traitors' Alan Cumming, The Challenge's T.J. Lavin and Deal or No Deal Island's Joe Manganiello were the other gents in the hard-fought category.
—Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Kripke, who created Supernatural and worked with this trio of gents as that series' original showrunner, long talked about getting Padalecki on The Boys.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Feb. 2025
The fact that this depressed gent is portrayed by Rankin himself speaks volumes.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025
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Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
Traitors' Alan Cumming, The Challenge's T.J. Lavin and Deal or No Deal Island's Joe Manganiello were the other gents in the hard-fought category.
—Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Kripke, who created Supernatural and worked with this trio of gents as that series' original showrunner, long talked about getting Padalecki on The Boys.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Feb. 2025
The fact that this depressed gent is portrayed by Rankin himself speaks volumes.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gent
Noun
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Off the floor, the 6-foot-2 floor general carries himself like a true gentleman.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
1 Apr. 2025
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Frank This character doing all the heavy lifting to keep Rick’s ruse afloat and Sam Rockwell doing all the heavy lifting to keep this plot interesting: Thank you for your service, gentlemen.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Generally portrayed as a male, Aslan was created as an allegory for Jesus by author C.S. Lewis.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
3 Apr. 2025
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Those individuals were 70% Black and close to 80% male.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The guy who shot that, Louis Powell, one of our South Africans, has been with the show for a very long time.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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These guys fought savagely, just fought incredibly hard.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The dude is so shredded, has so much energy, a crazy amount.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
7 Apr. 2025
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And maybe the dude who held my mom up at gunpoint and stole her car gets caught.—
Katie Moore,
Kansas City Star,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Gent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gent. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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