catechisms

Definition of catechismsnext
plural of catechism
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Noun
  • Students hoping to strengthen their competitiveness with Advanced Placement exams and additional ACT attempts can quickly rack up hundreds of dollars in fees.
    Micky Horstman, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canada’s Jeremy Hansen are finally getting a break after medical exams and other tests that followed their mission.
    Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But the summary lacks any kind of detailed explanation of which tests were run and under what conditions.
    Cyrus Farivar, ArsTechnica, 2 May 2026
  • In my tests, SynthID was quite effective at identifying images generated with Google’s models.
    Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
Noun
  • Colleges are beginning to respond with interviews, oral examinations, and in-person assessments.
    Gerald Bradshaw, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Once the animals undergo forensic medical examinations, the PSPCA said charges for the people responsible could include animal cruelty and neglect, failure to provide access to clean and sanity shelter and lack of veterinary care.
    Alexandra Simon, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • So far, no one has been arrested, but officials said a couple of cases have been documented as hate-crime investigations.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The former inspector general garnered a reputation for high-profile investigations, some of which saw her butt heads with Mayor Brandon Johnson and his administration.
    Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Even slow interstellar probes, traveling at just 1% of the speed of light, could reach us in about 10,000 years—an extremely short timescale in cosmic terms.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 May 2026
  • In 1986 the European Space Agency’s Giotto spacecraft returned images of the comet’s nucleus, and two Soviet Union probes and two Japanese spacecraft also imaged the comet that year.
    Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 May 2026
Noun
  • Decades after researches first sequenced the human genome, scientists throughout the world are still working to understand it.
    Gary Skuse, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Having heard of the fruitful researches carried on by you last year on the hitherto little understood properties of water surfaces.
    Mariel Carr, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The driver of a tractor-trailer that was damaged in the incident was taken to an area hospital with minor injuries and has since been released, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey stated in an email response to inquiries from The Bergen Record, part of the USA TODAY Network.
    William Westhoven, USA Today, 3 May 2026
  • In recent months, the camp’s owners have faced intense backlash for exploring reopening despite those inquiries.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • To try your hand at more quizzes from Fox News Digital, click here.
    Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Crystals as decor, horoscopes as personality quizzes.
    Avery Newmark, AJC.com, 23 Apr. 2026
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“Catechisms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catechisms. Accessed 7 May. 2026.

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