as in church
a building for public worship and especially Christian worship
left Edinburgh early in the morning for St. John's Kirk in Perth
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The sheriff’s office said deputies responded swiftly to both the church and the family’s home in Middleburg.—
Skyler Shepard,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Aug. 2025 -
Policy—the precursor of the numbers racket—involved drawing a winning number from a rotating drum, usually in a gym or a church basement.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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In Córdoba, colonial chapels cast long shadows across warm sandstone plazas, while Mendoza stirs slowly beneath the crystalline melt of the Andes—its sprawling vineyards glowing gold in the slanting afternoon light.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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An additional plaque is placed at an A.M.E. chapel in Peoria.—
Darcel Rockett,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Aug. 2025
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This condition causes the ovaries to produce high levels of androgens like DHT, causing hair loss on the front of the scalp and temples.—
Carley Millhone,
Health,
4 Aug. 2025
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In its long history, it has been surrounded by three churches (two are still active), a hotel, a post office, a former Scottish Rite temple, the elite St. Clare Club and a courthouse, which at one point included the county jail.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
4 Aug. 2025
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As painting raced from sunlit Impressionism to Cubist abstraction in a single generation, its subjects looked backward: to Gothic cathedrals, to a bohemian café-table culture already passing away.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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From the garden, there were views of Bayeux’s cathedral across the street.—
Thomas Fuller,
New York Times,
24 July 2025
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“Kirk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kirk. Accessed 11 Aug. 2025.
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