catechumen

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Noun
  • But both the novice and the veteran responded to Trump’s threats with grace and finesse.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The skaters were part of the National Development Team, a training program for top juvenile, intermediate and novice figure skaters.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 1 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In the main roles are newcomers Elli-Sara Valkeapää as Ejva, Andte Jusso Gaup as Heaika, and Vincent Niia as Nejla.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The cast, made up entirely of performers from the Twin Cities, includes a mixture of newcomers and Chanhassen favorites.
    Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • City firefighters went on strike for the first and only time as the department’s first female recruit — Lauren Howard — began her career.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
  • On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order declaring the federal government would recognize only two sexes, male and female; more recently, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moved to suspend medical treatment for transgender troops and restrict transgender recruits from enlisting.
    Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • There was another case involving 2024’s Immaculate and The First Omen, and both films deal with two young American novitiates whose bodily autonomy is forcibly taken away in the most disturbing ways imaginable.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2024
  • In a retreat focused on the Virgin Mary held one month before the group was to enter the novitiate, the Mistress of Postulants told them that the 10 months of the postulancy are like the months of pregnancy—that the postulants were, in a very real spiritual sense, gestating Jesus in their wombs.
    Rebecca J. Lester, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
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