altar
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CBS News lost two of its most respected executives — and viewers — on the altar of a merger.
From Salon • May 13, 2026
In my case, I had a book about horror films, and it had the Boris Karloff one where he’s a priest or something — he’s got a black altar with white crosses.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
Perhaps he didn’t understand the new Protestant Communion—rather than at an altar, the sacrament now took place over a table covered with a simple cloth—and he was pleading that someone explain it to him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Married At First Sight features single people who agree to marry total strangers, meeting them for the first time at the altar.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
“May it be mine,” the reaper prays, “beside Demeter’s altar to dig the great winnowing fan through her heaps of corn, while she stands smiling by with sheaves and poppies in her hand.”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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