baptize
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He then excused himself to help baptize a woman near the stage.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
He also hastily arranged to baptize Abel at Cathedral Chapel of St. Vibiana, the same chapel where he married Alice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
Román had come to the United States in 2021 for a short trip to baptize a relative.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
“I now baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,” he intoned with a subtle southern twang.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2022
Once or twice a year I arranged for a priest to come and bless unions, animals, and machines, baptize children, and say a belated prayer for the dead.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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
Her church baptizes people in it, and she has seen people cross it on foot.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
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
With financial help from her boyfriend, she baptizes seven-year-old Diana.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
Jim Rigby, who baptized Talarico and married his parents, remembers the youngster as a "calming presence."
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
One option we floated, because I was baptized Catholic, was the iconic St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
That same sea that baptized me is, for thousands of others, a grave.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
A new breeze baptized us in another vile stink.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
“Then it is time for you to be baptized by the deep.”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
The Bible recounts John the Baptist preaching to a flock around the Jordan River and baptizing Jesus there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
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
Pratt began baptizing parishioners in the brisk, rapid current.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2023
It had been built some fifty years back, hidden in the woods, right near the river just in case somebody needed baptizing.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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