commandment
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Nor is there any commandment to spread the religion over the face of the earth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
“It would undercut safety and be the opposite of good business, the opposite of fulfilling the common carrier obligation, and the opposite of meeting the congressional commandment to serve the public.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2024
Do we still, even in the faintest way, hear that Surrealist commandment: “Transform the world, change life”?
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2024
God of all creation, in Christ you gave us a new commandment that we should love one another, even as you love us.
From BBC • Jul. 4, 2023
All the adoptive-parents books Jonah had ever seen acted like there was one commandment Moses had forgotten to bring down from Mount Sinai: tell adopted kids the truth.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Vocabulary lists containing commandment
Civilizations and Peoples of the Fertile Crescent, Lessons 5–7
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for June 22–June 28, 2024
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