baptize
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The story begins with two young Mormon women on a mission to baptize converts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
He then excused himself to help baptize a woman near the stage.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
Both at Casa del Migrante and Agape, some migrants ask Murphy and Rivera to baptize them.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2023
The audience murmured and clapped as he recounted a well-worn story about using water from Israel’s Sea of Galilee to baptize his children.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
“I baptize you—” “Hey, wait a minute!” shouted Dill.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
Miraculous moments in the story, such as water welling from a rock where Patrick later baptizes people, play out in a quiet tone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
But in an explanatory note accompanying its decision, it recalled that when a priest baptizes someone, it is actually Christ performing the sacrament, not the community.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
The blistering sun baptizes during the day; the infinite dust dries you out in the afternoon; the wind bites at night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
Arkansas baptizes Texas in the cool, refreshing waters of SEC dominance.
From Fox News ● Sep. 12, 2021
With financial help from her boyfriend, she baptizes seven-year-old Diana.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
That same sea that baptized me is, for thousands of others, a grave.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Vermeer was born in Delft amid the Wars of Religion and baptized in the Calvinist Reformed Church.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
As Sabin remarked in a 1959 interview with Pravda, “the live vaccine was born in the U.S., but baptized in the U.S.S.R.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Sunday, the NBC play-by-play announcer will be baptized by fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
She stated that he was the son of Colonel Aureliano Buendía and that she had brought him to Úrsula to be baptized.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What Mr. Porter said he did remember was wading into the church’s pool and baptizing himself — or, as he claims, having his head held down in the font by “something.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
“I get what it looks like,” he says of his new job, which doesn’t involve baptizing pop stars in bathtubs or preaching to throngs of adoring congregants.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023
When asked what he would say if he were baptizing someone as a newly devout Bitcoiner, maybe in the warm waters of South Beach, Melder ad-libbed.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2022
Behind the tub, a mural of John the Baptist baptizing Jesus stretches across the wall.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2022
“We’ve done our duty by baptizing the,”' Úrsula would say, jotting down in a ledger the name and address of the mother and the place and date of birth of the child.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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