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rapture

[rap-cher] / ˈræp tʃər /


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No one returned a phone message left Saturday at Rapture Guns & Knives, the Lakeland store owned by the Pollock family and where Hutchinson once worked.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2024

In April, Luke Jenner of the rock band the Rapture spoke with Billboard about largely abandoning the music industry to become a life coach.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2023

Moving from the street to the screen, leading New York graffiti artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Fab 5 Freddy appeared in the first rap video broadcast on MTV, for post-punk band Blondie's track Rapture.

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2023

It was the posture of the assumption of Mary, of the Rapture, of alien abduction.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2022

A tiny thing, Whom when it slept the lovely mother nursed With reverent love, whom when it woke she fed And wondered at, and lost herself in long Rapture of watching, and contentment deep.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean




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