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as in preacher
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as in moralist
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Noun
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To the congregation, Rose had been much more than a charismatic preacher.—
Guthrie Scrimgeour,
Rolling Stone,
16 Mar. 2025 -
Blige also connected jazz (scat singing, riffing on a phrase, improvising wordless lines), gospel (testifying akin to a preacher delivering a sermon) and hip hop traditions.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The concept of consciousness has kept a small army of moralists, physicists, and theologians busy for generations.—
Melanie Stetson Freeman,
The Christian Science Monitor,
22 Nov. 2024
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Satirists are famously also moralists, and Houellebecq is no exception.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
24 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Centuries after being burned at the stake, a witch named Jennifer (Veronica Lake) magically reappears and tries to torment the descendant of the puritan who led the charge against her — only to fall in love with him.—
Clark Collis,
EW.com,
18 Oct. 2024
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Naysayers and scene puritans are too late to tear down Turnstile; the Baltimore band heard it all before its third album even dropped anyway.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
1 Oct. 2024
Noun
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The Omni Grove Park Inn & Spa came in as our readers’ favorite resort, and The Inn on Biltmore Estate followed closely behind as their second favorite resort in the South.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
14 Mar. 2025
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Freedman was especially unhappy with the Times, saying the paper deliberately tried to mislead its readers through selective editing of texts as well as — absurdly — the deletion of emoji in the messages posted in Lively’s complaint.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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But Philip Siphong Onphitak, the village religious teacher, or catechist, assumed leadership of his flock, keeping up resistance until Dec. 16, when he was murdered in the jungle, reportedly by Boonlue.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
18 Nov. 2019
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Lacchin was quietly transferred to a nearby mission; his driver and a catechist at Archer’s Post, Benjamin Ekwam, was chosen to marry Sabina.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
9 Oct. 2019
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“Moralizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralizer. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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