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Adjective
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Between the lines: Hegseth, who's been married three times, portrays himself as a family man and devout Christian.—
Mike Allen,
Axios,
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This represents a substantive shift among the faithful: For decades, women were always more devout, both in U.S. churches and around the world.—
Jacob Turcotte,
The Christian Science Monitor,
13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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From the beginning, people saw optimization as a godly power.—
Sigal Samuel,
Vox,
6 Jan. 2025
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Ovid’s godly characters are whittled down to basic geometric forms like ovoid shapes and cones that together recount the tale in some of the world’s most phonetically complex languages, such as Abkhaz from Abkhazia, Chatino from inland Oaxaca, and Silbo Gomero from La Gomera in the Canary Islands.—
Mariana Fernández,
ARTnews.com,
18 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The morning began with prayerful words by David Profitt of Glen Ellyn, FUMCAH associate pastor.—
Karie Angell Luc,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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The Republican National Convention is a redemption story, a narrative of prayerful compliance.—
Robin Givhan,
Washington Post,
16 July 2024
Adjective
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Bert Smith, a classical archaeologist at Oxford University, told the New York Times that the statue was probably made for religious purposes.—
George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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Apocalyptic thinking fuelled the Crusades, stoked the English Civil Wars, and gave rise to seventeenth-century religious movements like the Fifth Monarchists.—
Arthur Krystal,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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With saintly patience, my P.T. informed me that my shin bone was in great shape.—
Amy X. Wang,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2025
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Her devoted readers seemed to blithely accept that her stories, with their grisly leitmotifs, were the product of a saintly lady who was making it all up, out of empathy.—
Rachel Aviv,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Her chef and housekeeper, Bruna (Alba Rohrwacher), is timid and worshipful but able to take quietly decisive action when necessary.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
25 Nov. 2024
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In a country given to worshipful talk of Founding Fathers, this is not a new subject on the political stage.—
Molly Fischer,
The New Yorker,
1 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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This one could be like Intel in the 1990s, a stock that had one of the most sainted trajectories, rivaled and now exceeded by that of Club stock Nvidia.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
27 Oct. 2024
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Lorne Michaels is the out-of-touch one, and Jim Henson is essentially sainted.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
20 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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The pious townspeople eat food for sustenance, not enjoyment, and for over a decade Babette dutifully prepares a rather drab-looking bread soup for the sisters, per their instructions.—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
21 Dec. 2024
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And yet something about her pious active listening face really gets to Urs.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
20 Nov. 2024
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