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[wur-ship] / ˈwɜr ʃɪp /




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What connects this place of worship to a band known for its macabre aesthetic, however, is its music video for the song “Helena” from the album “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Seeing it up close and personal is like a viewing a religious relic, at least for those of us who worship in the Church of Cinema.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Eminem may well be staring down a future where his regrettable decision to record contemporary worship dreck with Kid Rock generated his last real headlines.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

"The children would sit at the back, adults in the middle, and everyone would sing worship songs all morning."

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The worship of Dionysus was centered in these two ideas so far apart—of freedom and ecstatic joy and of savage brutality.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

What does it mean to lack ambition in a country that worships wealth?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

“This is a church that worships Jesus. Loves one another. Seeks the good of their neighbors.”

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2026

Filipino woman worships green statue for 4 years, finds out it is animated character Shrek.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026

Madame Pernelle, too, worships at the shrine of Tartuffe, but has nary a good word, and many a bad one, for anyone else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

A pious man who worships the Seven so fer-vently that he eats a meal for each of them whenever he sits to table.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

His collections were worshipped for their emphasis on individuality.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

Of all United's squad, Fernandes is the one worshipped by fans.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

The image called to mind the golden calf of Abrahamic religious texts, worshipped by the Israelites to Moses’—and God’s—dismay.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

"If someone chants the name of Mother Bonbibi, she will save his life from tigers, snakes, and crocodiles," said villager Ashutosh Mandal, 63, referring to a deity whose idol is worshipped at temples.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

One of them has a picture he drew of the mosque where he worshipped.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

A church in North Carolina was experiencing a reckoning, and someone on the staff was like, ‘No one wants to talk. We haven’t even worshiped together because of the pandemic.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

I love the game too much and, if I am being candid, my team has usually been better than the one everyone around me worshiped, which does wonders for a boy’s sense of belonging.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

But she was worshiped for being the Iron Lady.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Shortly after their arrival, they attended a service at a large church in Naperville, marking the first time they had worshiped openly as Christians.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026

At the Union Baptist Church, where her family worshiped, she had been an enthusiastic member of the junior choir ever since her sixth birthday.

From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman

“They were standing, worshiping God. Some of them were clapping,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026

Society is depicted as "worshiping only power and money, despising art, sensitivity, tenderness, where people ...don't talk anymore."

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

Not by banning it or worshiping it, but by designing it to strengthen the irreplaceable human skills that business demands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

And a growing number of middle-class African Americans are worshiping in more diverse congregations.

From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2024

There are the tone cults, of course, dressing in sackcloth and worshiping sonic vibrations—but like so many things in our world, they seek to imitate what once was.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

“I’m a regular person, like you,” Hal says, gazing directly through the fourth wall at the tiny people he assumes are worshipping him from afar.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

It was to protect worshippers that Israel had asked people of all faiths to "temporarily abstain" from worshipping at all the holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City, he added.

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

Each has its own system of governance, but they share heritage, and ways of worshipping.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

They added it remained open for visiting and worshipping.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2025

I had a vague idea that being Christian had something to do with worshipping Yesu, a God who wore a crown of thorns.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman


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