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Recent Examples of pious As the emboldened queen is beheaded, King Henry is seen preparing to wed his third wife, the pious and soft-spoken Jane Seymour (Kate Phillips). Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 23 Mar. 2025 Contemporary accounts describe Antoine as a pious person, initially committed to Catholicism, then to spiritualism. Emilien Hofman (tr. Elettra Pauletto), The Dial, 20 Mar. 2025 On one hand, the nun has a pious profession. Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2025 If some punters were irritatingly pious, many also had the time of their life. Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pious
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Adjective
  • But nonetheless, the band has maintained an incredibly loyal following.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2025
  • Chalamet has stayed loyal to Guadagnino and to Italy, attending the Venice film festival for the premiere of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part 1 in 2021 and again a year later with Bones and All (2022), a horror romance directed by Guadagnino and co-starring Taylor Russell.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • Biden, a devout Catholic, had been scheduled to travel to Rome to meet with Pope Francis near the end of his presidency, but canceled the trip to remain focused on devastating wildfires in Los Angeles.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2025
  • For The 1st Time — At Lower Prices My grandmother, Alberta, a devout Jamaican Catholic who migrated to America before I was born, was a living embodiment of Pope Francis’s message.
    Richard Fowler, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • While Broadcom’s financial success since acquiring VMware suggests that its business plan will remain steadfast, sending cease-and-desist letters to VMware users risks further harming its reputation with current and former customers.
    Scharon Harding – May 7, ArsTechnica, 7 May 2025
  • Their team walks clients through every step, offering open communication, empathy, and steadfast support throughout the process.
    Ascend Agency, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2025
Adjective
  • For two and a half centuries, religious freedom has driven America's story.
    Kevin Sabet, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
  • Soon afterward, gunmen attacked members of the Druze religious minority in towns south of Damascus, setting off fierce battles that left more than 100 people dead.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • Initially introduced in the 1980s in service of building a superior urban running shoe, the color continues to embody New Balance’s staunch dedication to craft, quality, and fearless independence, in every field.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 3 May 2025
  • Rubio has largely eschewed his staunch advocacy of providing foreign aid and promoting democracy overseas since taking over the State Department, repeating a refrain that every policy or program should make America safer, stronger or more prosperous.
    Matthew Lee, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • But Post’s reverent take on pop country ends up inheriting the subgenre’s baggage.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2024
  • The learning process for me over the course of the first two years was to not be as reverent of the original.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But Tkachuk found a way to make up for his earlier mistake by redirecting a Thomas Chabot point shot past Anthony Stolarz, sending the Canadian Tire Centre faithful into madness.
    The Athletic NHL Staff, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • An early sculpt of what would become the animatronic was revealed, one complete with age spots on Disney’s hands and weariness around his eyes — Imagineers stressed their intent is faithful accuracy — but much of the attraction remains secretive.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • Even Joe — who, for the love of all that is holy, just wants his goddamn air fryer back — can’t help but point out how little Rose has visited.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 May 2025
  • Although the proximate cause of the Crimean War in the mid-19th century was a dispute between Russia and the Ottoman Empire over control of Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, historians also attribute the conflict to geopolitical rivalries and imperial ambitions.
    Scott Neuman, NPR, 30 Apr. 2025

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“Pious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pious. Accessed 18 May. 2025.

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