the Word

noun

religion
: stories and lessons of the Bible
the Word of God

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025 The Mum's the Word podcast host, 34 and her late husband shared two children: Aurelia, 5, and Bodhi, 4. Raven Brunner, People.com, 26 Jan. 2025 The location was supposed to be home to a doughnut shop called Beyond Amazing Donuts (B.A.D.), a counter-service chicken shop called Bird is the Word, a seafood restaurant called Passage Seafood and a speakeasy attached to Passage called The Abyss. Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025 Interview ‘The Idea That Slavery Was a Long Time Ago is Profoundly Untrue’: An Interview with Clint Smith Andru Okun The author of How the Word is Passed on writing through the lens of fatherhood, reckoning with the past and confronting difficult histories, and the beauty that can rise from pain. Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025 Cannabis Education Booths: Spreading the Word Why not turn a clean-up event or donation drive into a learning opportunity? Matt Rozo, The Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2024 Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Education This decision comes after the Florida Legislature passed HB 3, a law that will require age verification for anyone trying to access pornographic sites. Rachel Raposas, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024 Not to know about these things was not to have the Word. Tom Wolfe, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024 Shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022, Pastor Dmitry of the Word of Life Church in Melitopol, a city in southeastern Ukraine, woke up to Russian military SUVs parked outside his house. Daniel Darling, National Review, 22 Dec. 2024

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“The Word.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Word. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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