as in missioner
a person who is sent especially to a foreign country to do religious work (such as converting people to the religion or ministering to the sick)
The missionaries sent to the island were ultimately unsuccessful in converting the native residents.
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as in apostolic
relating to missionaries or their work
The church organizes missionary trips to a variety of countries.
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Recent Examples of missionary
TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
Jar Jar Binks Actor Reflects on Backlash to Phantom Menace: 'My Career Began and Ended' with Star Wars (Exclusive)
Mr. Reed, Grant’s character in Heretic, appears to be harmless at first, welcoming two missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints into his home.
—Jen Juneau, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 12 May 2024
He has been indicted in the U.S. for the armed kidnapping of 16 Christian missionaries in 2021 and the slaying of missionary Marie Franklin and kidnapping of her husband in 2022.
—Evens Sanon, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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Noun
For each historical period of U.S. Native school policy—missionaries, boarding schools, public schools—there are powerful examples of Native people who challenged harmful practices in education.
—TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
Jar Jar Binks Actor Reflects on Backlash to Phantom Menace: 'My Career Began and Ended' with Star Wars (Exclusive)
Mr. Reed, Grant’s character in Heretic, appears to be harmless at first, welcoming two missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints into his home.
—Jen Juneau, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Adjective
During this period, Ebenezer ran quite a few missionary societies.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 12 May 2024
He has been indicted in the U.S. for the armed kidnapping of 16 Christian missionaries in 2021 and the slaying of missionary Marie Franklin and kidnapping of her husband in 2022.
—Evens Sanon, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more.Phil Helsel, NBC News, 17 June 2022
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Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.al, al, 1 Dec. 2020
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Pope Francis's stop in East Timor is part of his ongoing apostolic journey across four countries between Sept. 2 and Sept. 13.Timothy H.J. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2024
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Viganò was recalled as U.S. ambassador, or apostolic nuncio, in 2016.Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
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On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 American, British and Canadian soldiers arrived on a 50-mile stretch of France’s coastline in what was the largest amphibious attack in history.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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But the few tanks the brigade still has left are going out fighting, engaging Russian paratroopers and marines—and potentially North Korean soldiers—along the edge of the 250-square-mile salient Ukrainian forces carved out of Kursk Oblast in western Russia back in August.David Axe, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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The conservative evangelical Awaken Church was holding its first service in the city as part of a long effort to establish a church there, and some residents were protesting.Maura Fox, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
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The Republican Party and Trump himself have spent the past several years pushing an increasingly anti-trans agenda, in what some experts have described as an ongoing ploy to lock up the evangelical vote.Samantha Riedel, Them, 13 Dec. 2024
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After a violent campaign in which Buddhists killed a number of priests and destroyed churches, in 1909, locals built the church that Galipeau visited in Cizhong.Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 17 Dec. 2024
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But over the summer of 2022, churches in the city started being shut down and priests detained.Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
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Apollo 11 – The wonderous time capsule from Todd Douglas Miller, the result of his monk’s work in the NASA archive.Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
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Thomas O’Connor legally changed his name to Santa Claus in 2005 and is a monk, child welfare activist and local city council member.Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Missionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/missionary. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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