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gentile

[jen-tahyl] / ˈdʒɛn taɪl /


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Jesenská, a gentile, was a Czechoslovak citizen living in Vienna, and when she received Kafka’s permission to translate him into Czech the two began a passionate correspondence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Noah was initially written to be a lot more like Tikhman, leaving Levitan unsure whether the stakes between a Jew and gentile who fall in love were high enough for a TV audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2024

Now, because it occurs around the biggest holiday here for our gentile friends, we make a much bigger deal out of it.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2023

“We reaffirm that Jew and gentile, we are one nation under God; that black and white, we are one nation indivisible; that Republican and Democrat, we are all Americans,” he said.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

As my mother and I walked together, I could imagine my gentile friends nearby, still going to school, still playing the streetcar game, but I did not lift my eyes even for a quick peek.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

On his TV show, he was wary of offending gentiles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Moreover, their devotion paid off materially; after converting to Catholicism in mass baptisms, Frank’s followers take on Polish names and prosper as gentiles, with several even entering the nobility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2022

Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust archive and museum, has long honored righteous gentiles who saved or in some way protected Jews.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2022

Ira Ringold in "I Married a Communist" is nothing like any of the white gentiles we just encountered, nor like any of the Jews we shall meet below.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2021

They were dressed like gentiles, and most wore no hats, as though to spite the nasty weather and spit in the face of tradition.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros


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