ordained

past tense of ordain
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as in ordered
to request the doing of by virtue of one's authority a new bill that would ordain the funding of public schools through state lottery revenues

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Recent Examples of ordained Mullally was ordained in 2001 and left the government three years later for church roles at Salisbury Cathedral and then becoming only the fourth woman bishop in the Church of England as the Suffragan Bishop of Crediton in the Diocese of Exeter. Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025 Mullally became a Christian at age 16 and worked as a nurse before being ordained. Elizabeth Pritchett , Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025 Qualified people who could be priests except for archaic laws that no longer serve us continue to wait to be invited into the ranks of those who have been ordained. Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025 Thirty-two deacons from around the world were being ordained that day. Kristine Tran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025 Kim, who became the first woman ordained in the Seoul Diocese of the Anglican Church of Korea, had been invited to develop the Episcopal church’s connection to Asian communities, said Mary Rothwell Davis, an attorney for the Episcopal Diocese of New York, where Go’s mother is a reverend. Kimmy Yam, NBC news, 5 Aug. 2025 In his nearly 30 years on death row, he has been ordained as a pastor and started a church. Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Mar. 2025
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  • In hindsight, Kempes — El Matador — was always destined to be the star of the tournament, having won the top goalscorer award in Spain in the two seasons leading up to the competition.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Entrepreneurs who start out with connections to an inner circle are all but destined to gain the right opportunities to achieve success.
    Sarah Maokosy, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
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  • Hawaii shoppers, for example, ordered the least amount of candy corn, 55% less than the national average, according to the Instacart study.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Both sides will submit fuller legal arguments and the Department of Homeland Security may be ordered to produce its internal decision record.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • Trump reportedly has been aiming to use the higher tariffs he’s enacted on non-compliant Mexican and Canadian goods to sway USMCA negotiations.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Conversely, 10 states, like Wisconsin and Oklahoma, have enacted laws to block undocumented students from receiving in-state tuition.
    Vanessa Delgado, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025
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  • But if your data is bad, your AI initiatives are doomed from the start.
    Brian Moore, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • High operation costs and noise concerns doomed the service, which ended in October 2003.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • The parents requested Alverno continue services to the end of the school year, May 22, 2026.
    Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Officers at the scene requested medical attention for a security guard and two other people who suffered gunshot wounds.
    Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2025
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  • Democrats countered that the GOP proposal actually is partisan, since Republicans are seeking to extend funding following the passage of a controversial spending bill that narrowly passed in July over the objections of all congressional Democrats.
    Kevin Breuninger,Sam Meredith, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But as the months have passed, Juni has stopped stashing food, loves to nap, and seems so much more at ease.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Ordained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ordained. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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