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as in preacher
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as in moralist
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Noun
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Buskirk — his dad and great grandfather were preachers — shortly after accepting the football job felt the calling to explore ministry work.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
31 May 2025 -
My dad was a Methodist preacher from a long line of them.—
John Archibald,
Southern Living,
25 May 2025
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But Kehlmann the moralist is also an irrepressible trickster, an endlessly fertile maker of fictional modes.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
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Sardonic in tone—its moralists are hypocrites, the church oppressive, and only the rebels are appealing—the book still plays it safe: slavery is all but absent from this version of Hannibal.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Centuries after being burned at the stake, a witch named Jennifer (Veronica Lake) magically reappears and tries to torment the descendant of the puritan who led the charge against her — only to fall in love with him.—
Clark Collis,
EW.com,
18 Oct. 2024
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Naysayers and scene puritans are too late to tear down Turnstile; the Baltimore band heard it all before its third album even dropped anyway.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
1 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Nearly a decade after its publication, this New York Times bestseller is still captivating readers with its pitch perfect descriptions of old Hollywood.—
Susan Walter
June 6,
Literary Hub,
6 June 2025
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Yet his readers may not know of his other passion: craft beer.—
Peter Rowe,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 June 2025
Noun
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But Philip Siphong Onphitak, the village religious teacher, or catechist, assumed leadership of his flock, keeping up resistance until Dec. 16, when he was murdered in the jungle, reportedly by Boonlue.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
18 Nov. 2019
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Lacchin was quietly transferred to a nearby mission; his driver and a catechist at Archer’s Post, Benjamin Ekwam, was chosen to marry Sabina.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
9 Oct. 2019
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“Moralizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralizer. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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