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Recent Examples of liturgical
Its practical effects and creature designs remain dazzlingly strange, and its subterranean world—labyrinthine, liturgical, and etched with mysterious lore—echoes the Underpass in Us.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
As the hundreds of thousands of attendees collected themselves after the nearly two-and-a-half hour ceremony, some cardinals helped each other straighten their mitres, the liturgical pointed hats.
—Nbc News, NBC news, 18 May 2025
Some travelers scrambled to book last-minute airfare and rapidly evaporating accommodations to attend the liturgical service, which is expected to draw a litany of global faith leaders and world dignitaries, including Vice President JD Vance, who is leading an American delegation there.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2025
Nearly all prefects of Vatican offices lose their jobs when a pope dies, but a few stay on, including the foreign minister and the master of liturgical ceremonies, who play a key role in assembling the conclave.
—Peter Pinedo, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
As the hundreds of thousands of attendees collected themselves after the nearly two-and-a-half hour ceremony, some cardinals helped each other straighten their mitres, the liturgical pointed hats.
—Nbc News, NBC news, 18 May 2025
Some travelers scrambled to book last-minute airfare and rapidly evaporating accommodations to attend the liturgical service, which is expected to draw a litany of global faith leaders and world dignitaries, including Vice President JD Vance, who is leading an American delegation there.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2025
Nearly all prefects of Vatican offices lose their jobs when a pope dies, but a few stay on, including the foreign minister and the master of liturgical ceremonies, who play a key role in assembling the conclave.
—Peter Pinedo, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for liturgical
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The complaint says he’s previously fought for the legal right to use sacramental plant medicines religiously.—
Julia Marnin,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2025
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Anand is a neurologist and the author of The Mind Electric, out in June 2025 Within the walls of a hospital, privacy is sacred—the intimate details of someone’s body and illness are meant to be as carefully guarded, as quietly delivered, as a sacramental confession.—
Pria Anand,
TIME,
18 Feb. 2025
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Its design appears aligned with the solar equinox, suggesting a ritual function.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
5 July 2025
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What to know about the festival The Hindu festival of Holi is an ancient ritual marks the end of winter and honors the triumph of good over evil, according to National Geographic.—
Alex Perry,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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The spiritual leader has not met a sitting US president since Barack Obama in 2016, after numerous visits to the White House since 1991.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
6 July 2025
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Ostensibly intended to protect a church’s autonomy in choosing its spiritual leaders, the exception has since been stretched into a catch-all excuse to deny employees of religious schools all kinds of legal recourse.—
A.J. Schumann,
Sun Sentinel,
6 July 2025
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The Senate parliamentarian spiked the part of the proposal that would exempt religious institutions from the tax, which, Fansmith says, was part of an effort to exempt the very conservative Hillsdale College from the endowment tax.—
Emma Whitford,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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At the end of the day students from a religious order went back to the houses of their communities where professors from the order also lived and dined and prayed with them.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
1 July 2025
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In a few weeks, Lonnie Smith will proudly put on a ceremonial white coat in Charlotte — a symbol of his dedication to becoming a doctor.—
Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
1 July 2025
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But the nature of today’s ceremonial monarchy doesn’t make the United Kingdom’s form of government preferable to ours.—
Richard Lorenc,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 June 2025
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Francis has long made ministry to prisoners a hallmark of his priestly vocation, and a Holy Year dedicated to a message of hope is no exception.—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Dec. 2024
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One thing to consider, however, is that Leviticus is devoted to priestly concerns.—
Jacob F. Love,
The Conversation,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Liturgical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liturgical. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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