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Recent Examples of anointment
Bad Bunny’s fame was growing ever more mainstream in the years before his Super Bowl anointment.
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Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anointment
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Your undeniable beauty and talent were not of this world, and a presence not of this world needs protection in a world that covets light and the anointing of God.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Oct. 2025
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With just days to go before this year’s induction ceremony, one of the 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees has sent his regrets.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
4 Nov. 2025
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Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are among the eight players up for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame next year via the Contemporary Baseball Era/Player Ballot.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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Rochelle, in her 50s, is working toward a master’s degree and ordination at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.—
Jayme Fraser,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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Before her ordination, Mullally worked as a nurse at hospitals in London, going on to serve as Chief Nursing Officer for England.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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Reina has made 74 angel investments over the past eight years, including Revolut, Volumetric, Elroy Air, and Speckle.—
Sawdah Bhaimiya,
CNBC,
25 Oct. 2025
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Chen’s Prince Group employs thousands of people and bills itself as one of the biggest conglomerates in Cambodia, with investments in luxury real estate, banking services, hotels, major construction developments, grocery stores and even luxury watches.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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Fort Funston is a former military installation overlooking the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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The exhibition will unfold with an introductory sound installation leading into a hallway that introduces six galleries with themes of gothic, psychological, science, slasher, religion and ghosts.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
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She was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1995 and promoted to Dame Commander in 2003, with her investiture held at Buckingham Palace in 2004.—
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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The King hosted an investiture ceremony for Manfred Goldberg, honoring him for his Holocaust education efforts.—
Simon Perry,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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After replacing original director Christopher Landon, Williamson will be directing a Scream for the first time, after scripting the first, second, and fourth installments.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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Though the serial killer in each installment of Scream is always revealed to be a different person, the phone voice has remained consistent since Jackson, now 65, took on the job back in 1996.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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By adjusting their positions in real time, the drones can not only lift and transport the heavy object but also control its orientation, which is crucial for precise placement in complex environments.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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Over the summer, officials in Turkey — where the lawsuit says some of the allegedly fraudulent Drake streams originated — started investigating Spotify over several allegations, including bribes for playlist placement and bot streams distorting domestic charts.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Anointment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anointment. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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