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reverend

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


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The former reality TV host could not help but compare himself to the late reverend King.

From Barron's Jun. 4, 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

“I don’t understand how as a pastor, he thinks that that’s acceptable,” Levy Armstrong, also an ordained reverend, said in a Washington Post interview Monday.

From Salon Jan. 20, 2026

Church services are being held to remember two firefighters and a 57-year-old man killed in a fire at an Oxfordshire business park, as a local reverend said "our hearts are broken".

From BBC May 18, 2025

Neil’s brother, an African Methodist- Episcopal reverend from Albany, Georgia, was going to marry them in the backyard under the myrtle trees.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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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