reverend
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The former reality TV host could not help but compare himself to the late reverend King.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
“I don’t understand how as a pastor, he thinks that that’s acceptable,” Levy Armstrong, also an ordained reverend, said in a Washington Post interview Monday.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2026
Church services are being held to remember two firefighters and a 57-year-old man killed in a fire at an Oxfordshire business park, as a local reverend said "our hearts are broken".
From BBC ● May 18, 2025
A reverend whose house was sold without him knowing has had the property returned to him nearly four years on, after a family was ordered to leave.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025
I find the rituals comforting—the tried-and-true hymns, sermons by the mild- mannered, slope-shouldered reverend that emphasize decency and good manners.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
No doctors, no lawyers, no journalists, no politicians, no reverends.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2022
They included two religious reverends, two senior penal system staff and two academics from the University of Sydney.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2022
Seven District residents — three reverends, two rabbis and two retired judges — filed the original complaint to the ABC board in mid-June.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2018
A group of more than 100 pastors, reverends, bishops and other faith leaders suggested in an April 20 letter that Mr. Grassley limit disproportionate sentences “particularly for drug offenses.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 27, 2015
It was on this trip that he had acquired most of his distaste for the reverends.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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