catechumen

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Noun
  • There are some things novice and experienced dog owners should know to raise a successful pup to adulthood.
    Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
  • As Syrus Solo Jin wrote in Time, budget blunders by overwhelmed novices meant police weren’t paid on time.
    Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • There are dozens of other newcomers to the big leagues who could determine the course of the 2025 title chases.
    Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Clueless featured the track in one of the film’s scenes where protagonist Cher (Alicia Silverstone) directs an impromptu photoshoot of the movie’s popular high schoolers and includes newcomer Tai (Brittany Murphy).
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Etheridge helped recruit numerous blue-chip recruits at his last Power 4 job — which was at his alma mater, Auburn.
    Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Trump was ultimately forced to revise that proposal, banning new transgender recruits but allowing existing trans troops to stay in the military.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • There was another case involving 2024’s Immaculate and The First Omen, and both films deal with two young American novitiates whose bodily autonomy is forcibly taken away in the most disturbing ways imaginable.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2024
  • In a retreat focused on the Virgin Mary held one month before the group was to enter the novitiate, the Mistress of Postulants told them that the 10 months of the postulancy are like the months of pregnancy—that the postulants were, in a very real spiritual sense, gestating Jesus in their wombs.
    Rebecca J. Lester, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
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“Catechumen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catechumen. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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