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reverend

[rev-er-uhnd, rev-ruhnd] / ˈrɛv ər ənd, ˈrɛv rənd /


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The love shown by a community who rallied to search for missing three-year-old Noah Woods was a "thread of positivity" amongst the tragedy, a reverend has said.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

The former reality TV host could not help but compare himself to the late reverend King.

From Barron's Jun. 4, 2026

Adusah told police he left his wife in the middle of the night to meet a reverend in Ghana's capital Accra at 6am.

From BBC Apr. 11, 2026

“I don’t understand how as a pastor, he thinks that that’s acceptable,” Levy Armstrong, also an ordained reverend, said in a Washington Post interview Monday.

From Salon Jan. 20, 2026

The first tale I heard about him when I arrived at the Great Place was that the reverend had chased away a dangerous ghost with only a Bible and a lantern as weapons.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

No doctors, no lawyers, no journalists, no politicians, no reverends.

From Salon Dec. 9, 2022

They included two religious reverends, two senior penal system staff and two academics from the University of Sydney.

From BBC Apr. 23, 2022

I come from a family of reverends and pastors, and then here comes my little gay self.

From New York Times Apr. 20, 2022

They can be reverends, rabbis, priests or pastors.

From Washington Times Nov. 12, 2018

It was on this trip that he had acquired most of his distaste for the reverends.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey




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