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Recent Examples of churchgoer
The board specifically targets battleground states and upped the ante by chartering buses to take churchgoers to early polling stations.
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Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Gil Mitchell plays the more liberal churchgoer who falls under her spell.
—Chris Klimek, Washington Post, 20 July 2024
The inverse is true of Democrats: 29% are weekly or monthly churchgoers; 30% are rural; and more than 40% are white, non-college men and women.
—Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2024
Limits on in-person religious services, for example, frustrated many churchgoers and church leaders.
—John Fabian Witt, Foreign Affairs, 31 Dec. 2020
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Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Gil Mitchell plays the more liberal churchgoer who falls under her spell.
—Chris Klimek, Washington Post, 20 July 2024
The inverse is true of Democrats: 29% are weekly or monthly churchgoers; 30% are rural; and more than 40% are white, non-college men and women.
—Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2024
Limits on in-person religious services, for example, frustrated many churchgoers and church leaders.
—John Fabian Witt, Foreign Affairs, 31 Dec. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for churchgoer
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The North Charles Street resident was a communicant of St. Ignatius Roman Catholic Church, 740 N. Calvert Street, where a Memorial Mass will be offered at 1 p.m. June 3, with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2023
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Simon—five years older and strikingly beautiful—works as a political consultant for high-minded left-wing politicians, is a communicant in the Roman Catholic Church, and has considered joining the priesthood.Caleb Crain, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2021
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Its employees are some of its most devoted congregants.Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 27 Sep. 2024
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After services, buses took congregants straight to early polling places.Colleen Long, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
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There is a certain irony in that nearly all those cited were people of Christian faith — in order of appearance: practicing Catholic; passionate theist; committed Church of Scotland; and lifelong Lutheran.Denis Alexander, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
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This doesn't mean that more atheist societies are worse than more theist societies (e.g., Estonia vs. Romania).Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2011
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“Churchgoer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/churchgoer. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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