consistories

plural of consistory

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for consistories
Noun
  • With the last night of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve falling on the same day this year – something that rarely happens – the reverend and rabbi choose to offer a joint service for their congregations.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Chamberlain, the reverend from the South Side of Chicago, tells TIME many of her colleagues in different congregations have been providing physical refuge every day for members of the migrant community who fear prosecution from ICE.
    Connor Greene, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Nuclear fuel is loaded into reactors and used until the fuel assemblies become highly radioactive, and must be removed for temporary storage and eventual disposal.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Citizen assemblies or jury-like bodies could help commissioners assess what constitutes reasonable responses to harms.
    John Wihbey, Time, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The foundation hosts biannual congresses, with panels devoted to discussing recent threats to the rule of law, and awarding honors to lawyers who defend it.
    Fabio Bertoni, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
  • More than 300 full and non-voting delegates of the powerful Central Committee will gather in Beijing for the closed-door plenum, one of seven meetings typically held within five years, between party congresses.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After deliberations that stretched out over two meetings this week, Milpitas City Council narrowly voted Friday to ask Councilmember Evelyn Chua to apologize for an incident that nearly broke state law and allegedly breached several city codes.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In August, however, the hard-liners began to win out, according to someone with knowledge of the Administration’s internal deliberations.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Morrissey explodes the comparatively respectable conventions of prior Frankenstein adaptations by embracing the deranged erotic and fascist implications of building and breeding new life.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
  • By flouting all conventions in the face of rock and roll and making a mellifluous spectacle of the music that moved through his body like a thought from God, Jarrett has become a peerless symbol of artistic purity, his talent singular, his every note sui generis.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Consistories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consistories. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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