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noun

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Recent Examples of reverend
Adjective
No one was a better fit for the job to officiate Richie and Madden's 2010 wedding than the Run DMC frontman, who is a reverend IRL. Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2022 There before the reverend mother and God, the police (wielding rifles) and the butchers (wielding a cow trailer) managed to corral two of the steers. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2022
Noun
Kinloch is a reverend and senior pastor at Triumph Church, while Jenkins is a former Detroit City Council member elected in 2009 who served one four-year term. Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 6 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 See All Example Sentences for reverend
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reverend
Adjective
  • Parents paying is another venerable LA tradition, though one that is rectified with a chain of Venmos at a later date.
    Joe Joyce, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Ergo, the nostalgic dramedy, wherein Francis Guinan plays the titular and venerable proprietor of Phil’s TV and Radio, and Fischer plays his daughter, Sam.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The investigation involves local police, priests, and a house of God.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The most high profile of which is The Haunting of Hill House, but Midnight Mass, the story of a priest who arrives at a small island community performing miracles, is easily one of his best.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Israeli strikes severely weakened Hezbollah – culminating in the assassination of its revered leader, Hassan Nasrallah – and significantly curtailed the group’s domestic clout.
    Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Honda puts a techy new spin on a revered nameplate with the 2026 Prelude sport coupe, a sleek 200-horsepower hybrid going on sale late this year.
    Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And throughout a 100-minute show, Cain recounted the story of a preacher’s daughter through wailing vocals, haunting drones, and meditative, languorous chants.
    Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025
  • From there, the plot pretzels itself into typical noir convolution, giving us an excuse to meet all sorts of characters, not least a shady local preacher played by Chris Evans, who uses his almost embarrassingly all-American good looks to convey treacle and snake oil.
    Daniel Bromfield, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Another late relative was the venerated acting teacher and founding member of the Group Theatre, Stella Adler, whose students had included Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty and Robert De Niro.
    Howard Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
  • He was charged with violating a Texas law for desecration of a venerated object.
    Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The three killers might have gotten away with their crime if not for Casey, who eight months after the murder confessed to a clergyman and then led police to Pahler's mummified body.
    Chris Spargo, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The clergyman was from the Maryknoll mission, a Roman Catholic order that had long worked with the Japanese American community and was now assisting with their removal from the West Coast.
    Tracy Slater July 10, Literary Hub, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • Swag itself opened with a respectable 163,000 overall units back in July despite having few physical album sales since his physical units hadn’t shipped out yet.
    Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • And at least Brentford’s human-rights record is respectable.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Monica Nutti Blind, a deacon in the church who also is a member of the Sami people, said the church's architecture reminds her of the area's seasons.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Thirty-two deacons from around the world were being ordained that day.
    Kristine Tran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025

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“Reverend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reverend. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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