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also evangelic
as in missionary
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Recent Examples of evangelical
The past decade of partisan politics has badly fractured the evangelical world.
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Emma Green, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2025
World Vision, an evangelical group, has given tens of millions of people access to clean water and found donors to sponsor hungry children.
—Elizabeth Dias, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
But some evangelical leaders are speaking out against both policies, even though Trump has enjoyed broad support from the evangelical community.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2025
Judson University, a nonprofit evangelical Christian school founded as Judson College in 1963, is named after American Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson, who became the first Protestant missionary sent from North America to preach in Burma, the school’s website said.
—Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
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Emma Green, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2025
World Vision, an evangelical group, has given tens of millions of people access to clean water and found donors to sponsor hungry children.
—Elizabeth Dias, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
But some evangelical leaders are speaking out against both policies, even though Trump has enjoyed broad support from the evangelical community.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2025
Judson University, a nonprofit evangelical Christian school founded as Judson College in 1963, is named after American Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson, who became the first Protestant missionary sent from North America to preach in Burma, the school’s website said.
—Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evangelical
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This year’s theme is A Heart for the Harvest and will feature four missionary families representing Namibia, Portugal, South Africa and South Sudan.—
Orlando Sentinel Staff,
Orlando Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2025
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Videos of the various positions—missionary in New York City, cowgirl in Nashville—immediately go viral online.—
Abby Aguirre,
Vogue,
11 Feb. 2025
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There are 23 members in the maintenance unit — workers who help maintain HACC properties — and there are 77 members in the administrative/clerical unit, which primarily includes housing specialists and office assistants.—
Lizzie Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
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The department slashed another 89 Education Department contracts including a contractor hired to manage mail and clerical operations.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
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Stay Here: Twin Farms in Barnard is planted on a 300-acre pastoral estate, and offers 28 cottages and suites (each individually decorated).—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
20 Mar. 2025
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At the same time, too, this is the same man who grew up on pastoral Oregon farmland, pushing himself on pre-dawn lifts, who nearly hyperventilated in the shower before one freshman-year playoff game at Crescent Valley.—
Luca Evans,
The Denver Post,
16 Mar. 2025
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Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system allocates key positions among Christian, Shiite and Sunni factions, with dominant blocs — Hezbollah and the Amal Movement for the Shiites, and the Lebanese Forces for the Christians — insisting on their share of ministerial portfolios.—
Sally Abou Aljoud,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2025
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Extending phase one indefinitely would suit an Israeli prime minister whose extremist ministerial allies want to start bombing Gaza again and then re-establish the Jewish settlements that Israel forced out 20 years ago.—
Mick Krever,
CNN,
28 Feb. 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 Mar. 2025.
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