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reverend

[rev-er-uhnd, rev-ruhnd] / ˈrɛv ər ənd, ˈrɛv rənd /


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He told police he left the hotel after midnight to travel to Accra for a 06:00 meeting with a reverend before a scheduled flight back to the UK.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

Adusah told police he left his wife in the middle of the night to meet a reverend in Ghana's capital Accra at 6am.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026

"ICE has even been arresting airport workers while they are on the job," said one of those who protested, reverend Mariah Furness Tollgaard of Hamline Church United Methodist.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

Bass also faces a challenge from her left with Rae Huang, a community organizer and reverend, announcing a run for mayor in November.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026

The reverend nodded, adding that Clarkebury students were required to do manual labor after school hours, and he would arrange for me to work in his garden.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

No doctors, no lawyers, no journalists, no politicians, no reverends.

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2022

They included two religious reverends, two senior penal system staff and two academics from the University of Sydney.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2022

Seven District residents — three reverends, two rabbis and two retired judges — filed the original complaint to the ABC board in mid-June.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2018

A group of more than 100 pastors, reverends, bishops and other faith leaders suggested in an April 20 letter that Mr. Grassley limit disproportionate sentences “particularly for drug offenses.”

From Washington Times ● Apr. 27, 2015

It was on this trip that he had acquired most of his distaste for the reverends.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey




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