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Christ

[krahyst] / kraɪst /


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Backshall studied at Canterbury Christ Church, carrying out research into venoms from amphibians, and later received an honorary doctorate from the university.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

With this time-shaping device called the Chronovisor, Father Pellegrino Ernetti professed to have seen footage of the crucified Christ and even enjoyed a lost play staged by an ancient Roman dramatist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Brazil, known for its Christ the Redeemer statue looming over Rio de Janeiro, hosts the world's second-largest Christian population after the United States, according to the Pew Research Center.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

In the early 1640s, Mr. Mancall writes, Eliot decided “he would bring the word of Christ to the Algonquian-speaking people of southern New England.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Papa said Lord make us thankful for these and all our blessin’s for Christ sake a-men and started slicing the ham.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Three Christs An empathetic psychiatrist treats three men suffering from schizophrenia in 1959 Michigan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2019

But that performance pales compared to his role in Jon Avnet’s Three Christs, where he plays one of a trio of schizophrenics who claim to be Jesus.

From The Verge ● Sep. 22, 2017

The play acknowledges this predicament when one of the Christs remarks, “Why pay to see a comedy, when we have a comedy right here?”

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2014

They don’t usually believe in flying saucers, like the 39 suicides of Heaven’s Gate, or homegrown Christs with a taste for classic rock, like the Branch Davidians of Waco.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2013

Unlike the suffering, earthbound Christs depicted at eye level on the church walls, our Christ Pantocrator was clearly transcendent, all-powerful, heaven- bestriding.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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