baptize
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He then excused himself to help baptize a woman near the stage.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
Román had come to the United States in 2021 for a short trip to baptize a relative.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
The pastor mentioned Molina’s insistence that he baptize Santiago.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2023
“I now baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,” he intoned with a subtle southern twang.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2022
“I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost,” he pronounced sonorously as he shook the wet branch.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Miraculous moments in the story, such as water welling from a rock where Patrick later baptizes people, play out in a quiet tone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Her church baptizes people in it, and she has seen people cross it on foot.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
But in an explanatory note accompanying its decision, it recalled that when a priest baptizes someone, it is actually Christ performing the sacrament, not the community.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
Arkansas baptizes Texas in the cool, refreshing waters of SEC dominance.
From Fox News ● Sep. 12, 2021
With financial help from her boyfriend, she baptizes seven-year-old Diana.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
That same sea that baptized me is, for thousands of others, a grave.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
As Sabin remarked in a 1959 interview with Pravda, “the live vaccine was born in the U.S., but baptized in the U.S.S.R.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
The first missionary arrived on Easter Island in 1864: By 1868 all the islanders had been baptized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
He knows the rules better than most baptized Catholics.
From Salon ● May 23, 2025
“Then it is time for you to be baptized by the deep.”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
What Mr. Porter said he did remember was wading into the church’s pool and baptizing himself — or, as he claims, having his head held down in the font by “something.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
“I get what it looks like,” he says of his new job, which doesn’t involve baptizing pop stars in bathtubs or preaching to throngs of adoring congregants.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023
When asked what he would say if he were baptizing someone as a newly devout Bitcoiner, maybe in the warm waters of South Beach, Melder ad-libbed.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2022
Behind the tub, a mural of John the Baptist baptizing Jesus stretches across the wall.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2022
It had been built some fifty years back, hidden in the woods, right near the river just in case somebody needed baptizing.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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