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Recent Examples of churchgoer
The scheme was built on trust — people enlisted family members, friends, fellow churchgoers, co-workers to sign up and invest.
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Kevin Collier, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025
These groups are all more likely to be open to belief than men (28 percent), conservatives (28 percent), college graduates (28 percent) and weekly churchgoers (22 percent).
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
Some publishers, afraid of a backlash from churchgoers, quietly expunged or watered down evolution in their textbooks, and many states continued to prohibit the teaching of evolution in public schools.
—Randall Balmer, Twin Cities, 23 July 2025
Parading for these Easter churchgoers was called on account of weather.
—Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025
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Kevin Collier, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025
These groups are all more likely to be open to belief than men (28 percent), conservatives (28 percent), college graduates (28 percent) and weekly churchgoers (22 percent).
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
Some publishers, afraid of a backlash from churchgoers, quietly expunged or watered down evolution in their textbooks, and many states continued to prohibit the teaching of evolution in public schools.
—Randall Balmer, Twin Cities, 23 July 2025
Parading for these Easter churchgoers was called on account of weather.
—Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for churchgoer
Noun
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Nonetheless, the event’s atmosphere reliably turns Lincoln Center into a hive of cinematic energy, and the impatient desire that draws audiences through the doors provides a sense of like-minded communicants at the movie altar.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
25 Sep. 2025
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The North Charles Street resident was a communicant of St. Ignatius Roman Catholic Church, 740 N. Calvert Street, where a Memorial Mass will be offered at 1 p.m. June 3, with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.—
Frederick N. Rasmussen,
Baltimore Sun,
14 May 2023
Noun
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CenterPoint also organized a Hope and Healing session to help congregants.—
Marisa Peñaloza,
NPR,
15 Sep. 2025
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Born in London on May 3, 1991, Acutis began saying the rosary daily at around 5-and-a-half years old, his mother told congregants at the University of Mount Saint Vincent, in New York City.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
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There is a certain irony in that nearly all those cited were people of Christian faith — in order of appearance: practicing Catholic; passionate theist; committed Church of Scotland; and lifelong Lutheran.—
Denis Alexander,
Washington Post,
17 Mar. 2023
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Philosophical critics and subsequent scientific inquiry heaped doubt on Kant’s objectivism, and advancing secularism rendered for many his theist explanation for the morally reasoning immortal soul somewhat antique.—
Gerard Baker,
WSJ,
13 Feb. 2023
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“Churchgoer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/churchgoer. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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