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a public speech usually by a member of the clergy for the purpose of giving moral guidance or uplift
a sermon whose message was that we should love our neighbors as much as we love ourselves
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More recently, a pastor named Greg Lock gave a sermon mocking Flamy Grant, who responded with wit and grace in a viral TikTok.
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Spin Contributor, SPIN, 10 Oct. 2024
The Buddha’s first sermon also described the Middle Way: a balance between the extremes of asceticism and indulgence.
—Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
The First Amendment, Lewis used to say, wasn’t conceived to help in the writing of sermons about liberty—it was created to be used.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
When Yaa attended his crusade, she was impressed by his sermons, which promised that the apocalypse would bring believers eternal bliss.
—Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
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Spin Contributor, SPIN, 10 Oct. 2024
The Buddha’s first sermon also described the Middle Way: a balance between the extremes of asceticism and indulgence.
—Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
The First Amendment, Lewis used to say, wasn’t conceived to help in the writing of sermons about liberty—it was created to be used.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
When Yaa attended his crusade, she was impressed by his sermons, which promised that the apocalypse would bring believers eternal bliss.
—Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
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Did Apple take any lessons from designing its ultimate desktop and apply them to the Mac mini?PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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The couple met because Bündchen's son Benjamin took jiu-jitsu lessons at Valente's academy.Charna Flam, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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In a letter sent to football players and their families, Kelly Lara, an assistant district superintendent, said two incidents occurred involving racist speech made toward, and about, a Black teammate.Krissy Waite, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Old trees also matter for climate change, as Biden noted in his Seattle speech.April Ehrlich, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2024
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Of course there is, although thankfully there’s not too much heavy-handedness to the script’s inherent homilies about fake news and American authoritarianism not just being a byproduct of the 1930s.Chris Willman, Variety, 16 June 2024
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Last week, the pontiff skipped his homily during Palm Sunday Mass.Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2024
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The museum also hosts workshops, lectures, and performances and is planning an exhibition on the workings of quantum physics for next year.Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2024
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In a lecture in 2012, the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson considered (opens a new tab) gravitational waves from the sun, where the violent churning of matter inside the star should constantly send out mild tremors in space-time.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Sermon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sermon. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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