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Recent Examples of sacramental
Anand is a neurologist and the author of The Mind Electric, out in June 2025
Within the walls of a hospital, privacy is sacred—the intimate details of someone’s body and illness are meant to be as carefully guarded, as quietly delivered, as a sacramental confession.
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Pria Anand, TIME, 18 Feb. 2025
After the surgeon general’s warning on alcohol, people of faith should rethink sacramental wine, writes guest columnist Eli Federman.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
That standard was tested when the churches in New Mexico and Oregon successfully sued the D.E.A., bolstering the case for the sacramental use of psychedelics.
—Ernesto Londoño Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 12 May 2024
Something has changed, not in church law or doctrine but in moral theology and the pastoral application of sacramental discipline.
—Massimo Faggioli, Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2018
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Pria Anand, TIME, 18 Feb. 2025
After the surgeon general’s warning on alcohol, people of faith should rethink sacramental wine, writes guest columnist Eli Federman.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
That standard was tested when the churches in New Mexico and Oregon successfully sued the D.E.A., bolstering the case for the sacramental use of psychedelics.
—Ernesto Londoño Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 12 May 2024
Something has changed, not in church law or doctrine but in moral theology and the pastoral application of sacramental discipline.
—Massimo Faggioli, Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sacramental
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According to internet wisdom, this is the origin of the meme, including the necessary hand gesture, where you pantomime juggling as if deliberating between the two numbers, trying to triangulate some specific, perhaps divine, structure.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
11 Nov. 2025
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Just double-check your emails, avoid signing contracts unless necessary, and be open to divine redirections.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
9 Nov. 2025
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This has given the conflict a religious coloration, and political elites have also chosen to politicize the conflict to negotiate power and other interests, which has complicated the problem.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Seyfried spoke to the real-life Ann Lee's experience losing all of her children at a young age, which influenced her religious views.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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Visitors who have had their fill of the beach can explore the Port Aransas Museum and Chapel on the Dunes, the oldest consecrated church on Mustang Island.—
Gabi De la Rosa,
Southern Living,
7 Nov. 2025
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But there is more: a little way back from the water, knuckle-like boulders of sandstone or some other friable rock sharpen the ambience of a consecrated space.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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Rose Glass' directorial debut is an ecclesiastical horror that offsets the fine line between devotion and delusion, all while stirring the painful emotions of loneliness and trauma.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Oct. 2025
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Fox taught that the Inner Light emancipates a person from adherence to any creed, ecclesiastical authority or ritual forms.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Oct. 2025
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An irresistible, holy spectacle.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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Or does Lux ask us to crane our necks to appreciate base human longing that presents in ecstatic and horrific manifestations, in the hunger for all sorts of holy and unsavory connections?—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
7 Nov. 2025
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That all being said, November 1st is sacred.—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
7 Nov. 2025
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Those individuals do not necessarily share the view that the Jewish people still share a sacred covenant with God.—
Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
7 Nov. 2025
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The Reforming Popes of the 11th and 12th centuries, beginning with Leo IX and culminating with Innocent III, addressed the ecclesial crises of their day.—
Case Thorp,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 May 2025
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Others suggest that any sort of ecclesial peace that had reigned was over and that Francis is now more exposed to critics, deprived of the moderating influence Benedict played in keeping the conservative Catholic fringe at bay.—
NICOLE WINFIELD,
BostonGlobe.com,
25 Jan. 2023
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Over the years, the Impoundment Control Act would come to be viewed as sacrosanct at the OMB.—
Andy Kroll,
ProPublica,
18 Oct. 2025
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Many of these cuts were to scientific research, something that, for decades, both parties had treated as sacrosanct, steadily boosting funds for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Sacramental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sacramental. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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