sermonette

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Recent Examples of sermonette In March 1969, Tom Smothers asked Mr. Steinberg to do another sermonette, although the network had banned the bit. Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2017
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Noun
  • Goodall’s speaking tours brought her to Miami on many occasions, including an April 2023 lecture at Florida International University’s Ocean Bank Convocation Center and, a decade earlier, to the University of Miami’s BankUnited Center (now Watsco Center) in April 2013.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
  • This essay was adapted from the Christ Church, Oxford 500th anniversary lecture.
    Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The documentary shows Monica filming Weston on her phone during his speech and, again, later when he was being interviewed by the media.
    Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The group and its nearly 20,000 members have become so influential that top politicians from both sides of the aisle have given speeches at the conference.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With the colonies on the brink of collapse, the Reverend George Whitefield ignites the first Great Awakening, uniting an entire generation with his thundering and faithful sermons and proclamations of liberty.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Crashing into Grattan’s church as the reverend delivers a pseudoscientific sermon about a looming apocalypse, Rafferty gives Grattan his own taste of what the end of the world might look like by choking him with an eel.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Perhaps more damaging for Macron were the reasons that Lecornu subsequently gave for his resignation, in an address on the front steps of L’Hôtel de Matignon, the 18th-century office of France’s prime ministers that, at this rate, may soon need fitting with a revolving door.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Mark the milestone of purchasing a first home with stationery featuring their brand new address.
    Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2025

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“Sermonette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sermonette. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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