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The order is largely dedicated to serving the poor and has served as missionaries throughout history, per its official website.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
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Prevost, a longtime missionary and member of the Augustinian religious order, made his first appearance on the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday wearing the traditional red cape of the papacy.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 2025
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Image Image Throughout, Bob, as his American friends still call him, or Roberto, as his Spanish and Italian ones do, has remained consistently low-key, a gray man in a world of outsized personalities cloaked in sumptuous scarlet cassocks, an earnest admin of the apostles.—
Mitra Taj,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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Like those of other popes, Francis' ring has an image of St. Peter the apostle and Francis' own name.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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But this former American soldier has no special plans for Thursday, when Victory in Europe, or VE Day, is commemorated, saying every day is special to him now.—
Anne Clifford,
CNN Money,
8 May 2025
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An Indian soldier was also killed by shelling Wednesday, according to the Indian army.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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Over the last 15 years, Trump and his acolytes have often used Chicago and the city’s gun violence as political punching bags, garnering support among law enforcement officers and voters in the city’s more conservative neighborhoods.—
Sam Charles,
Chicago Tribune,
12 May 2025
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And his most famous acolyte has the president’s ear: Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2025
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Gaudium et Spes, 22), finally appearing to his disciples after the resurrection with his glorious body.—
Daniel Burke,
NPR,
9 May 2025
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Friedman, a Frank Lloyd Wright disciple, was head of the UC Berkeley School of Architecture at the time the house was built.—
Pueng Vongs,
Mercury News,
24 Apr. 2025
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This post-neoliberal script has adherents on both sides of the political aisle.—
Jennifer M. Harris,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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But after making an initial splash in 2009 thanks to high-profile adherents like marathon star Paula Radcliffe, the first wave of high-quality studies supported the idea that beet juice really does improve endurance.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside Online,
19 Apr. 2025
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But the fate of the votary is to require and receive a constant renewal of faith.—
Jeff Weiss,
Spin,
21 Aug. 2023
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Many remember the Cultural Revolution as a time of Red Guard excess—of the people terrorizing the votaries of the party.—
Mary Gallagher,
Foreign Affairs,
20 June 2023
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By then, Furlan had amassed roughly 8.6 million followers on the now-defunct social media app Vine — the most of any woman on the site.—
Nicole Briese,
People.com,
19 May 2025
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The club has four million followers on Instagram — double that of Sunday’s fellow finalists, United — and over 800k followers on TikTok.—
Asli Pelit,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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“Proselytizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proselytizer. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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