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The east-to-west processional from Scone, near Perth, to Oban would have been a journey of about 100 miles and would have involved a great deal of privation.
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Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Taps played as rain began to fall and the processional paused in front of the digital billboard on the side of a truck parked on the street, flashing images of Officer Islam, both in uniform and at home, smiling with his children in tow.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2025
The hearse carrying Osbourne's casket, followed by his family who paid for the processional, travelled along Broad Street to the Black Sabbath bench on the Broad Street canal bridge.
—Joanna Moriello, New York Daily News, 30 July 2025
There will be visitation hours from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., followed by the funeral service at 2:30 and a processional to Wisconsin Memorial Park in Brookfield, where Corder's body will be buried.
—Jack Albright, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
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Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Taps played as rain began to fall and the processional paused in front of the digital billboard on the side of a truck parked on the street, flashing images of Officer Islam, both in uniform and at home, smiling with his children in tow.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2025
The hearse carrying Osbourne's casket, followed by his family who paid for the processional, travelled along Broad Street to the Black Sabbath bench on the Broad Street canal bridge.
—Joanna Moriello, New York Daily News, 30 July 2025
There will be visitation hours from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., followed by the funeral service at 2:30 and a processional to Wisconsin Memorial Park in Brookfield, where Corder's body will be buried.
—Jack Albright, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for processional
Noun
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At the end of the ceremony, Paris and Théo performed a galliard—a dance from the Renaissance era—as their recessional.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
24 Oct. 2024
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Students were still advised to maintain social distance before the recessional began.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
20 May 2022
Noun
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Also on the season is an oratorio reflection on the death of Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming student who was brutally and fatally beaten in a 1998 anti-gay hate crime.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
8 Sep. 2025
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In 2017, with a grant from the Hewlett Foundation, the Del Sol String Quartet commissioned Huang to write an oratorio about Angel Island’s history based on the poems.—
Aimée Ts'ao,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Processional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/processional. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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