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Gloria Patri

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Definition of Gloria Patri

as in hallelujah

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Noun

And a road win without Pat Surtain II would be the surest hallelujah yet.

— Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2025
There’d be a brief silence, before all the voices flooded in and the whole circle would catch fire like an unending wall of the most resounding hallelujah imaginable.

— Jack Chang, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024

Definition of hallelujah

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The whole thing is a paean to friendship, unexpected success, and partying.

— Vogue, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2026
The invigorating result, executive produced by Martin Scorsese, is a portrait of friendship and camaraderie as much as a paean to an era of experimental New York theater that still shines like a beacon.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of paean

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Life begins as a fanfare — a regal entry heralded by brass — and ends as a solo cello lament and the serene acceptance of death as sung by a choir.

— Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Her laments are now laced with fury, as genocidal wars and murderous technologies join global warming in the twenty-first century’s third decade.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of lament

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Nobody wants to be subjected to one more triggering, off-key note of an Edwin Díaz dirge.

— Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
This is the starting point of Earth 7, Deb Olin Unferth’s stellar and sweeping science fiction novel that is part cosmic comedy and part dirge to our dying world.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026

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