catechisms

Definition of catechismsnext
plural of catechism

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for catechisms
Noun
  • Patrick Nolten, assistant superintendent for assessment and accountability, said the calendar is set with several parameters in mind, including starting as late as possible in August but still ending the semester before winter break so high school students can wrap up their final exams.
    Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Juneteenth became a holiday at a most inconvenient time in the school year — at the end of the instructional year and during Regents exams.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The league conducted tests at the Nashville outdoor game, stringing a cable the length of the rink between two forklifts to lift a plastic tarp over the rink.
    Joe Smith, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Such tests could be used in research toward compressing a core of uranium with explosives — something that is needed for an implosion-style nuclear weapon.
    Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Women who brought the lawsuits said the university ignored their complaints and deliberately concealed abuse that happened for decades during examinations at the UCLA student health center, the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center or in Heaps’ campus office.
    Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Patients accused Heaps of groping them, performing unnecessarily invasive examinations and making suggestive comments.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • State authorities have frequently partnered with the federal government in the past on such investigations and welcome a good-faith partnership in the future, Bonta said.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The Amazon-like company has been subjected to a number of investigations, raids, and inspections initiated by the Korea Fair Trade Commission, the country’s primary antitrust regulator, in recent years.
    David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 6 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The science payload to be landed there includes seismometers, a drill to allow emplacement of heat flow and electrical conductivity probes, and instruments to study the magnetic field and surface weathering.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The incident lands as Waymo faces multiple probes tied to school-zone safety.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In testing the battery using a hot plate as the heat source, the researches connected 10 cells in series and powered an LED light.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2019
Noun
  • Research and operational grants poured in; Motherisk’s clinical laboratory expanded its operations, and its counselling center grew to seventy-five staff members, answering an average of two hundred inquiries a day.
    Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Juventus have spent the last few weeks making inquiries about other forwards.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • To try your hand at more quizzes from Fox News Digital, click here.
    Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 1 Feb. 2026
  • And to keep it fun, there aren’t quizzes.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Catechisms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catechisms. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.

More from Merriam-Webster on catechisms

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!