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also evangelic
as in missionary
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Recent Examples of evangelical
It was first pieced together in New Orleans by the cornetist King Buddy Bolden, who was born the year Reconstruction ended, and who drew on both the Blues traditions of Black evangelical churches and the ragtime of French-speaking Creole Black musicians.
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Elizabeth Alexander, Time, 1 Apr. 2025
McKinney grew up attending an evangelical church in Texas where she was taught that her tendency to gossip would keep her from holiness.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Morris, a leading national figure in the American evangelical movement and the founder of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, was charged Wednesday with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025
Many evangelical Christians also oppose the care.
—Rose Conlon, NPR, 12 Mar. 2025
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Elizabeth Alexander, Time, 1 Apr. 2025
McKinney grew up attending an evangelical church in Texas where she was taught that her tendency to gossip would keep her from holiness.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Morris, a leading national figure in the American evangelical movement and the founder of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, was charged Wednesday with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025
Many evangelical Christians also oppose the care.
—Rose Conlon, NPR, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evangelical
Adjective
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Boehler told the outlet that Vieira was doing missionary work when he was detained by Tunisian authorities 13 months ago.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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The first Orthodox churches in North America were established as missionary operations in Alaska by Russia, which owned the territory, in the late 18th Century before spreading to California, New York and the Midwest as waves of immigrants from Greece and Eastern Europe settled across the country.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The law only allows schools to recognize changes made to birth certificates that were made to correct a clerical error.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act Feenstra also introduced the IRS Math and Taxpayer Help Act, which requires the IRS to change certain notices involving math or clerical errors.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Nowhere is the dream of pastoral harmony regained through scientific knowledge more beautifully realized than in Boucher’s nocturne of a cherub, telescope in hand, contemplating the moon.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
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The album version shifts from what could at first be mistaken for a pastoral, pleasant crooner about country life into a four-alarm fire, crackling with impatient riffs by the first refrain, when horns pile insistently on top of each other only to strip back, again, to an orchestral piano hymn.—
Shana Naomi Krochmal,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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With an impressive academic background and decades of ministerial work, Dr. Joseph has guided and inspired countless individuals through his preaching and writings.—
Ascend Agency,
New York Daily News,
11 Apr. 2025
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The approval process for the project is ministerial, meaning the applicant does not need to seek public input and that review by city staff does not need to include public hearings.—
Robert Vardon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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What People Are Saying Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, led Wednesday night's gathering, urging the faithful to pray for the pope's swift return to his apostolic mission.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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In 2018, on her 110th birthday, Lucas, who is also the oldest living nun in the world, was honored with an apostolic blessing from Pope Francis, per Guinness World Records.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
7 Jan. 2025
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“Evangelical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evangelical. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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