baptism
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It was a baptism of fire in a 5-0 defeat, but the player Everton fans would come to love was on show again a few days later.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Or churches that get fixated on monthly baptism rates instead of tending to the spiritual needs of their flocks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Former midfielder Carrick was installed as boss until the end of the season this week and faces a baptism of fire when Manchester City visit on Saturday.
From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026
Doctors like Mel King, whose neurodivergence manifests as open, radical caring and diagnostic precision, or Whitaker, who was revealed to be unhoused himself at the end of his first season baptism by disaster.
From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026
Father took his hand away and waited, I suppose, for the miracle of baptism to take hold.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary lists containing baptism
Power Suffix: -ism
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The Suffix -ism, Part 1
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