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as in missionary
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Recent Examples of evangelical
Sebastian Stan makes an unexpected turn as a conservative evangelical patriarch in this new film from 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days director Cristian Mungiu.
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Rachel Handler, Vulture, 26 May 2026
Tim Keller, the pastor who effectively invented the modern urban evangelical church movement through New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian, spent heavily training the next generation of clergy but did not produce a successor.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 May 2026
Unlike earlier Christian fundamentalist figures who built formal political organizations, these leaders often mobilized followers through media ministries, conferences, and informal networks, contributing to a more decentralized but influential form of evangelical political activism.
—Rachel Cole, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 May 2026
Throughout the gripping family drama, starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as evangelical religious figures and parents of five who get caught in a nightmare with Norwegian Child Services, the rapt audience in the Grand Théâtre Lumière barely made a sound.
—Jada Yuan, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2026
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Rachel Handler, Vulture, 26 May 2026
Tim Keller, the pastor who effectively invented the modern urban evangelical church movement through New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian, spent heavily training the next generation of clergy but did not produce a successor.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 May 2026
Unlike earlier Christian fundamentalist figures who built formal political organizations, these leaders often mobilized followers through media ministries, conferences, and informal networks, contributing to a more decentralized but influential form of evangelical political activism.
—Rachel Cole, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 May 2026
Throughout the gripping family drama, starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as evangelical religious figures and parents of five who get caught in a nightmare with Norwegian Child Services, the rapt audience in the Grand Théâtre Lumière barely made a sound.
—Jada Yuan, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evangelical
Adjective
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Only one of them, a missionary doctor, tested positive for Ebola.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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An American doctor was infected with Ebola while working with a medical missionary organization in Democratic Republic of Congo.—
Michael Kaplan,
CBS News,
27 May 2026
Adjective
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Some clerical tasks certainly disappeared or changed.—
Christopher Marquis,
Time,
30 May 2026
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Its clerical rulers, who put down a mass uprising at the start of the year, have faced no sign of organized opposition since the war began.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
20 May 2026
Adjective
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Visitors might arrive by crossing the central plaza; emerging from the underground parking garage, nestled into a berm; or else wandering in from the surrounding Jackson Park, a network of pastoral paths completed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1871.—
Sam Cochran,
Architectural Digest,
4 June 2026
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In retrospect, this traumatic event gave us a luminous, decades-long solo career that moved seamlessly from oblique art-rock to sumptuous electronica, pastoral instrumentals, and soundtrack music.—
SPIN Staff,
SPIN,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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The ministerial list was announced by his new prime minister, economist Ahmadou Al Aminou Lo.—
Jenny Vaughan,
semafor.com,
2 June 2026
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Others, like German chief of defense General Carsten Breuer, said that China is losing a chance at dialogue by not having a ministerial-level delegation.—
Lim Hui Jie,Joanna Ossinger,
CNBC,
31 May 2026
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On June 2, 1979, Pope John Paul II set out from Rome on an apostolic journey, as papal trips away from the Vatican are called.—
Paul Elie,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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The leader of the Roman Catholic Church directed his remarks to university students at the Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, during an 11-day apostolic journey in Africa.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Evangelical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evangelical. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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