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Recent Examples of congregant
All those ornate empty buildings with men in robes waving smoke around elderly congregants, preaching homilies with references to activities as quaint as shepherding and sowing, and praying to dead saints whose miracles are now forgotten or considered dubious.
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Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 July 2025
This stellar, utterly assured debut about the larger-than-life father and son about whom all congregants of the Seven Seals M.B. Church orbit simply crackles on the sentence level.
—Literary Hub
july 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before constructing a wooden meetinghouse in Virginia, started Thursday with a ceremonial groundbreaking.
—Ben Finley, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
Shields previously served a pastor at a church in Avon, often meeting congregants at a Panera or Starbucks rather than in his office.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 15 May 2025
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Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 July 2025
This stellar, utterly assured debut about the larger-than-life father and son about whom all congregants of the Seven Seals M.B. Church orbit simply crackles on the sentence level.
—Literary Hub
july 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before constructing a wooden meetinghouse in Virginia, started Thursday with a ceremonial groundbreaking.
—Ben Finley, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
Shields previously served a pastor at a church in Avon, often meeting congregants at a Panera or Starbucks rather than in his office.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for congregant
Noun
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In a decades-old tradition called Souls to the Polls, Black churchgoers have resisted voter suppression by traveling together to the polls after Sunday services.—
Stephen Legomsky,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 July 2025
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For hundreds of years, music has invoked feelings of faith and unity among churchgoers in ways that simple, spoken prayer cannot do.—
Aaron Valdez,
The Enquirer,
2 July 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
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Simon—five years older and strikingly beautiful—works as a political consultant for high-minded left-wing politicians, is a communicant in the Roman Catholic Church, and has considered joining the priesthood.—
Caleb Crain,
The Atlantic,
10 Aug. 2021
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“Congregant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/congregant. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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