sacramental

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Recent Examples of sacramental 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 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 The law allows adults ages 21 and older to possess up to 2 ounces of marijuana, a half-ounce of cannabis concentrate and 1 ounce of products such as edibles for recreational, sacramental and other uses. Dánica Coto, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2024 Those who remained on Shelter Island to look for scallops were the hard core, the romantics and the purists, for whom a fallow winter turns the search for scallops into something like a sacramental rite. Christopher Maag, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sacramental
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Adjective
  • Tootsie Scooter — officially known as the divine Suzie Toot — has scooted her final toot on the RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 stage.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • At the core of Judaism and Christianity lie divine interventions that rip a hole in the known universe and change the course of history.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • With Ramadan now a season of cultural significance beyond religious observance, its musical phenomenon continues to evolve, marking a unique space where nostalgia, innovation and commercial success intersect.
    Hala Mustafa, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Despite hailing from a historically apolitical and publicity-avoidant religious community, the Amish farmer has turned into a kind of folk hero among MAGA Republicans — and a symbol of the political right’s growing thirst for raw milk.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • However, the oil miraculously burned for eight days until new consecrated oil could be found.
    Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Dec. 2024
  • That was the most moving moment of the day for Marie Capucine, 37, a consecrated virgin representing her Parisian parish of Saint Germain des Prés at the reopening.
    THOMAS ADAMSON AND SYLVIE CORBET THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Among the cultural attractions are the ecclesiastical architecture and art—the baroque St. Matthew’s Parish in the centro storico and the Sanctuary of Nostra Signora delle Penne perched on the Capo Mele promontory.
    Catherine Sabino, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • As Charles Mercier writes in his book, Christianity in Western and Northern Europe, Monaco has an ecclesiastical commitment to the Roman Catholic Church that is unique on the continent.
    Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Continue reading … ‘MANY SURPRISES’ – Archaeologists discover proof of Bible verse at holiest site in Christianity.
    FOXNews.com, FOXNews.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Religious leaders commissioned Renaissance masters to adorn their holy places.
    Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Timberland boots aren’t a closed practice or a sacred emblem, but their reinvention serves as yet another reminder of how easily African-American culture or 'hip-hop culture,’ as Carter frames it, can be reinterpreted without proper acknowledgment.
    Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • For many, the morning congregation is no longer just a sacred moment of worship followed by a quick departure.
    Tiana Randall, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • During the latter half of the century, the Brazilian Catholic church shifted its approach from one that centered on elites and favored the status quo to one that promoted social justice and ecclesial and political action on behalf of the poor.
    Chayenne Polimédio, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2019
  • In the case of the Synodal Path reform in Germany, some of the core of the beliefs of the Catholic Church, such as the Church’s divine constitution and ecclesial communion, the Sacraments, and the ministerial Priesthood, are being questioned once again.
    Fr. Goran Jovicic, National Review, 13 June 2021
Adjective
  • In response, each state implemented the three-tier system, which remains in effect today and has even been upheld as sacrosanct by the U.S. Supreme Court. Passport: Explore the finest destinations and experiences around the world in the Forbes Passport newsletter.
    Jessica Dupuy, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • That maneuver went at the heart of what was regarded as a sacrosanct tenet in American government: that civil servants remain outside partisan politics and can’t be fired without due process.
    Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025

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