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The store hosts a full calendar of craft workshops and art openings and big neighborhood events like our annual community altar for Dia de los Muertos.
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American Booksellers Association, USA Today, 10 May 2025
At the rear of the altar, the Rev. Gabriel O’Reilly, Mass site coordinator, huddled with other planners.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
There are flowers along the aisle and on the altar, but nothing hinting at the bonkers drama of the day.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 May 2025
Politics happened in the compounds of the council’s most powerful constituencies, and religious practices were more personal, with altars and incense burners inside people’s homes.
—Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
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American Booksellers Association, USA Today, 10 May 2025
At the rear of the altar, the Rev. Gabriel O’Reilly, Mass site coordinator, huddled with other planners.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
There are flowers along the aisle and on the altar, but nothing hinting at the bonkers drama of the day.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 May 2025
Politics happened in the compounds of the council’s most powerful constituencies, and religious practices were more personal, with altars and incense burners inside people’s homes.
—Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for altar
pulpit
Noun
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Pastor Lorenzo Jones stood in a tub of water in his white pulpit gown.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 June 2025
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Their cross-racial sisterhood expanded the civil rights imagination beyond male pulpits and courtrooms.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
24 May 2025
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“Altar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/altar. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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