congregation
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Beauford Delaney’s 1964 gestural abstraction—a style he embraced only after moving to Paris in his 50s—is a swirling yet soothing congregation of ecru, dusty yellow and pale pink.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
During the service, with President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in the congregation, the Catholic leader called for "greater room for freedom" and human dignity to be safeguarded.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
"It has been very concerning that an issue as important as safeguarding is being used to attempt to unsettle the church's leadership and divide its congregation," the statement added.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
Rev. David Black leads the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago in Hyde Park, a congregation that describes itself as “progressive” with “traditional theology,” and also as multigenerational, multiracial, multiethnic and multicultural.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
When the matter was closed, when the sentence was passed and the congregation dispersed, a ruthless youthful forgetting, a willful erasing, protected her well into her teens.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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com-, con-
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