sacramental

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Recent Examples of sacramental After the surgeon general’s warning on alcohol, people of faith should rethink sacramental wine, writes guest columnist Eli Federman. Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025 That standard was tested when the churches in New Mexico and Oregon successfully sued the D.E.A., bolstering the case for the sacramental use of psychedelics. Ernesto Londoño Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 12 May 2024 Many of them walk to Mass from nearby apartments and could be cut off from the sacramental life if OLV is shuttered. Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2024 The priest and the child have spent time alone together, and after one meeting Donald returned to Sister James’s class acting strange, his breath redolent of sacramental wine. Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sacramental
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Adjective
  • The divine-smelling duo pumps up thin strands like any volumizing formula, but then uses botanical extracts (pea sprout) and Capixyl (made from a biomimetic peptide and red clover extract) to improve scalp health.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Fighting an uphill battle is not part of the divine plan for your life and career.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In the LeMasters' eyes, Kirk's shooting was a political and religious assassination.
    Matthew Cupelli, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Participants must go to religious services once per week.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But there is more: a little way back from the water, knuckle-like boulders of sandstone or some other friable rock sharpen the ambience of a consecrated space.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Churches are fine, but consecrated Earth is dangerous to them.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • The Rooms Laid out over three floors—each with soaring, ecclesiastical cross-vault ceilings—rooms are spacious and chic, each with a varying but superb vistas.
    Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Because the actual date of the spring equinox can differ by a day or two, the Catholic Church created a fixed date of March 21 to define it, known as the ecclesiastical equinox.
    Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • Earlier this year, proof of an ancient garden was found at the holiest site in Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • And where the original Hollow Knight sent you plunging into the black depths of Hallownest, Silksong drives Hornet upward, scaling Pharloom alongside a procession of bug-like pilgrims, all drawn to the looming holy Citadel above.
    Keller Gordon, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Afterwards, a group of early humans buried her in an ancient, sacred place along a lakeshore.
    Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The Seoul portion of the tour begins with a hike along Inwangsan Mountain Trail, a sacred shamanic site, then continues into the city’s historic heart.
    Emese Maczko, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Reforming Popes of the 11th and 12th centuries, beginning with Leo IX and culminating with Innocent III, addressed the ecclesial crises of their day.
    Case Thorp, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2025
  • Others suggest that any sort of ecclesial peace that had reigned was over and that Francis is now more exposed to critics, deprived of the moderating influence Benedict played in keeping the conservative Catholic fringe at bay.
    NICOLE WINFIELD, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Because the music is sacrosanct.
    Daniela Avila, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Independence of monetary policy has long been considered sacrosanct—the bedrock of global confidence in the dollar.
    Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Sacramental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sacramental. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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