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Noun
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The nurse called the priest to do an exorcism on the house and bless the nurse and her roommate.—
Pamela McLoughlin,
Hartford Courant,
5 Aug. 2025 -
The Trump administration had faced pressure to release Go, the daughter of an Episcopal priest, from religious groups and at least one lawmaker from within the president’s own party.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
5 Aug. 2025
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The movie featured Tom Hollander as clergyman Mr. Collins, a cousin of Mr. Bennet’s who is set to inherit the family’s rural estate since the Bennets have no sons.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
30 July 2025
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The clergyman was from the Maryknoll mission, a Roman Catholic order that had long worked with the Japanese American community and was now assisting with their removal from the West Coast.—
Tracy Slater
July 10,
Literary Hub,
10 July 2025
Noun
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One example is the popular itinerant preacher known as the Public Universal Friend.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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The 83-year-old was a preacher of 55 years from Kansas City, Mo., who rarely appeared without a suit and one of his many beloved ties.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
19 July 2025
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In an area that used to produce influential Catholic churchmen the way the Dodgers churned out Rookies of the Year, Gomez has amounted to the living equivalent of a hair shirt: a mode of piety that serves no one but the wearer.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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Martini was a key figure in a group of churchmen who met annually in St. Gallen, Switzerland, to ponder how best to blunt John Paul and Ratzinger’s reactionary thrust.—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025
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But that subgenre is far from the only religiously tinged music — created by everyone from devout evangelicals to open agnostics, from country artists to rappers — climbing the charts today; a number of pop songs are likewise courting the divine.—
Aja Romano,
Vox,
8 July 2025
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The gestures of Darrell Grand Moultrie’s choreography thread together the divine, in the narration of those scenes about Marimba’s origins, with the bumping and grinding of the club, which touches the latter with the air of the holy.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
21 May 2025
Noun
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Afterward, the senior cardinal deacon will announce the new pope from the balcony of St. Peter's.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2025
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Aimee had three ministerial assistants and a board of seven elders, along with 21 deacons — 14 of them women.—
Claire Hoffman,
Rolling Stone,
20 Apr. 2025
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The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in the wind.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacramento Bee,
18 Apr. 2024
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His socialite wife, Margo (Malin Akerman), quickly takes Sophie under her wing, introducing the wide-eyed waif to her gaggle of girlfriends, including Jill (Katie Lowes), the wife of the megachurch’s reverend, and Callie (Jaime Ray Newman), the sheriff’s wife.—
Melissa Locker,
Time,
23 July 2025
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Jimmy Swaggart, the reverend who rose to prominence during the golden age of televangelism in the 1980s before a prostitution scandal rocked his evangelical empire, has died.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
1 July 2025
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