doves
- plural of dove.
Example Sentences
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"Instead of a summer lull, the meeting promises one last clash between the hawks and doves before anyone reaches for the sunscreen," said Brzeski.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
The changing picture is nevertheless likely to make for tense discussions among the ECB's "hawks", who favour rate hikes, and the "doves", who advocate looser policy.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
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 ● Mar. 3, 2026
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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
It’s not a huge dovecote for actual doves, but it’s big and it has four floors for four different families and this cool conical roof covered in little handmade roof tiles.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
