canonical
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Canonical midcentury Southern writers — Faulkner, O’Connor, Welty — were often perceived as white eccentric outsiders.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2022
Canonical anthems such as Julia Ward Howe’s “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” are filed alongside such modern compositions as Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2020
A senior cleric invites him to join a Canonical Investigation Commission, which will examine an event that occurred in southern France.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 31, 2018
For decades, the region served as a “motherland” for Orthodoxy outside of the old country, said Alexei Krindatch, research coordinator for the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States.
From Washington Times • Apr. 22, 2017
It was early remarked that our first Canonical Gospel bore no real marks of being a translation at all, but is evidently an original independent Greek work.
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard
Vocabulary lists containing canonical
The Importance of Being Earnest
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GRE Verbal Reasoning, List 8
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Out of Salem
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