missionary
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Though the businessman and Mormon missionary never mined for gold himself, he became California’s first millionaire by monopolizing the sale of supplies to those who did.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
My grandpa retired at 70 after working as a missionary for most of his life and later at a national laboratory.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026
He was a ghoulish host of a late-night television horror program in the 2005 vampire movie “The Roost,” then played a wagon-train missionary in the 2007 western “Seraphim Falls.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
Born Robert Francis Prevost in the midwestern US city of Chicago, the pope worked for more than two decades as a missionary in Peru and obtained Peruvian citizenship in 2015.
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
They wouldn’t let me be an altar boy, a secondary school pupil, a missionary with the White Fathers.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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