canonical
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Canonical dishes like thieboudienne and mafe, a luxurious peanut or groundnut stew, were always served to me with broken rice.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021
Lipsyte sometimes satirizes this world in lightly parodic ways, like the strip club that fancies itself a “post-cis neo-vaudeville burlesque” or the museum exhibition titled “Minor Whites: Contemplating Canonical Chaff.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2019
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
According to Origen, Theophylact and Jerome, this Gospel was written before the Gospel of Luke, and many learned moderns have deemed it earlier than any of the Canonical Gospels.
From Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels by Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini
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