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[min-uh-ster] / ˈmɪn ə stər /




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“The French will let us participate in their nuclear deterrence as much as the Americans,” quipped a government minister in another European nation involved in the project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Burnham won the Greater Manchester seat of Makerfield at a by-election in June, ahead of him becoming prime minister the following month.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

The arrangement is financially unsustainable for a fragile economy, the minister said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

The minister said he had listened to their concerns.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

They had spent the day in Newark, New Jersey, trying to find a pro-Nazi minister named Emil Krepper, whose name was written in invisible ink on his handkerchief.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

Scottish government ministers and officials gathered on Sunday afternoon to discuss the impact of Storm Boelo.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

As prime ministers, courtiers and aristocrats, the Gladstone, Lascelles and Trevelyan families were at the heart of the governing elite down the decades.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

We are a long way from crisis, though, and a bond yield of 5% is nowhere near the level that would have emerging-market finance ministers adding the IMF on speed-dial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

This would mean removing DUP Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly from her role, as the two ministers share an office and cannot function without one another.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

And one of the best things was that some brothers of this type were developing into smart, fine, aggressive young ministers for Mr. Muhammad.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

He ministered to thousands of weekly worshipers in the 2010s, including the likes of Kevin Durant, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber, whom he baptized in the bathtub of a former NBA player.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The Rev. Rob Schenck, a former Christian nationalist who once ministered to the right in Washington, told me that Suozzi said at the time that he was living at C Street.

From Salon ● May 29, 2026

During his retirement, he ministered at St Mary the Virgin in Eastbourne until he was barred in 2022.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025

Among those he ministered to were two female prisoners, one of them a Muslim, which raised some hackles in the Vatican.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025

After a time of sickness to which his wife ministered tenderly, he went back to his business and never again let the insanity of love come near him.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Describing her experience ministering as a person of colour, Rev Eileen Cremin said it was "overall positive".

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026

Bedraggled and bleeding, he opens his eyes to find Anna ministering to him and is rhapsodically smitten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

My recent employment has been as a hospice chaplain, ministering to dying people and their families.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2024

The commission cited Lin’s work ministering to fellow prisoners and translating the Bible into Chinese.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024

Vincent is also discovering a talent for and fulfillment in ministering to the sick and injured.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman


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