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catechism

[kat-i-kiz-uhm] / ˈkæt ɪˌkɪz əm /


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He may have gone to catechism class, but he hasn't done his homework.

From Salon May 23, 2025

Billie Jo Medders can recite her history with Kevin McCarthy like a well-worn catechism.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 7, 2023

When she was just 4 years old, Quintanilla recited creeds — statements of belief — at her grandmother’s catechism classes in church.

From Washington Post Apr. 21, 2023

Francis quoted the catechism of the church, which teaches that L.G.B.T.Q. people should not be marginalized but instead welcomed.

From New York Times Jan. 25, 2023

In the autumn I would have to go to the school in the town, and in a few years I would go to catechism lessons in the church.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

The conventional catechisms of art were dominated by the New York School, which Ruscha’s art held in an equivocal — and often very funny — embrace.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2023

During the days, I recited calorie counts like catechisms and logged each mile run like a penitent prayer over a rosary bead.

From Salon Jun. 28, 2022

Secessionists complained that by 1860 generations of Northerners had been taught antislavery in their catechisms, their schoolbooks, the sermons they listened to and the speeches they heard.

From Washington Post Oct. 27, 2017

Coming out in Oklahoma is a conversion: its attendant testimony, catechisms, and shibboleths have weight, gravitas.

From The Guardian Jun. 13, 2016

He hauls some green mattresses piled outside into a small room used for studies and catechisms, where the migrants sleep.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario




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