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parish

[par-ish] / ˈpær ɪʃ /


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The new bill shifts from a fixed number to subsidizing one ADA per 7,500 people in the parish.

From Slate • May 5, 2026

The Castle Rock mother wants to use the new benefit, 15 hours a week of state-funded preschool, to send her children to the St. Mary parish school near Denver.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Along with a thousand or so other Catholics, Dowling had walked more than a mile from a nearby parish church to the Broadview facility.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

It is not only Christian villages suffering in this war added al-Jamal, who leads the parish choir.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

His Lutheran colleague the Reverend John Schmidt had the fever, and his parish gravedigger and the gravedigger’s mother had already succumbed.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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