evangelical

variants also evangelic

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Recent Examples of evangelical Republicans’ strongest support comes from White evangelical Christians (66%), White men without a degree (54%), and rural voters (50%). Victoria Balara, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2025 Religious Americans — including evangelical Christians, Protestants and members of non-Abrahamic faiths — reported much higher levels of community contentedness, researchers said. Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025 In Central Indiana, a patchwork of evangelical churches and universities has been sharing ideas and lessons on how to expand these efforts, broadly known as creation care. Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025 White evangelical Christians have remained a core part of Trump's political base, with more than 75 percent supporting his presidential campaigns, according to the Pew Research Center. Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for evangelical
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evangelical
Adjective
  • In this respect, the Pope is hardly an exception, as many Chicago pastors have been sent to do missionary work in Latin America, according to the historian Deborah Kanter.
    Geraldo Cadava, New Yorker, 22 May 2025
  • As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Worsley did his youth missionary work in Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • The law only allows schools to recognize changes made to birth certificates that were made to correct a clerical error.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 2 May 2025
  • Van Arsdale said the inconsistencies in John Doe’s story were due to a clerical error in filing.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • This double belonging—to the United States by birth, but to Peru by choice, service, and love—may give us some insight into Pope Leo’s pastoral identity.
    Raúl E. Zegarra, Time, 17 May 2025
  • Several bishops likened Pope Leo XIV to a fusion of Popes Francis and Benedict, noting his blend of intellectual rigor and pastoral warmth while highlighting his Augustinian background and canon law expertise.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • The approval process for the project is ministerial, meaning the applicant does not need to seek public input and that review by city staff does not need to include public hearings.
    Robert Vardon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Decades in the making Nearly two decades have passed since the European Space Agency formally committed to funding the ExoMars mission at a ministerial meeting in December 2005.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In 2014, the university awarded Prevost, then the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, an honorary doctor of humanities.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 10 May 2025
  • By 2014, Prevost was back in Peru after Pope Francis appointed him apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo and later the bishop of Chiclayo.
    Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 9 May 2025

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“Evangelical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evangelical. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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