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Noun
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Site visits and work in the studio will be part of her creative research, as well as dialogues with religious communities and congregations, university professors and artisans.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
7 May 2026 -
Scott McConnell, executive director of Lifeway Research, attributed the membership dip in part to church closures and to congregations cleaning up their membership rolls.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 May 2026
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In 16th-century Italy, gamblers could wager on the election of civic magistrates and the outcome of papal conclaves.—
Parker Bach,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2026
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Behind the large wooden door, its frescoed walls closed to the general public reveal details of the compound's dramatic history, including papal conclaves and the Inquisition interrogation of Galileo Galilei.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The Bristol location of IDEX Health & Science engineers and manufactures plastic manifolds and fluidic assemblies for the in-vitro diagnostics bio market.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
8 May 2026
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The job entails making, installing and repairing sometimes enormous metal assemblies for vessels.—
Eric Tucker,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
Noun
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Multigenerational convocations among Central Asian thinkers remain exceptionally rare.—
Anel Rakhimzhanova,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The list of signatories includes many of the field’s most prominent names, more than 50 of whom have spoken at previous congresses.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2026
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Palestinian soccer officials have long argued — including at FIFA annual congresses across the past 15 years, before Infantino was president — that Israel violates statutes by letting teams from settlements in the West Bank play in the national league.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Miller was not involved in the walk-back, according to two people with knowledge of the process and who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.—
Michael Scherer,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2026
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The report has no binding value and is merely a synthesis of deliberations.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 May 2026
Noun
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Republicans held five straight conventions in the city, from 1904 through 1920.—
Dan Petrella,
Chicago Tribune,
13 May 2026
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Nowhere was this more evident than at his legendary speech, delivered in less than perfect Spanish and which seemed deliberately designed to provoke the literary sensibilities and conventions of the time.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 May 2026
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“Consistories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consistories. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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