gentile
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Jesenská, a gentile, was a Czechoslovak citizen living in Vienna, and when she received Kafka’s permission to translate him into Czech the two began a passionate correspondence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
But this will work only by learning how to protect ourselves and make the case to our gentile neighbors so that we can continue to contribute mightily to the future of our common home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
“We reaffirm that Jew and gentile, we are one nation under God; that black and white, we are one nation indivisible; that Republican and Democrat, we are all Americans,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
This wine is a blend of vernaccia, trebbiano gentile and malvasia bianca, grown on ancient sea beds that are now Tuscan hillsides, providing a minerally saline complexity.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022
At Schindler's factory, my father picked up rumors about the war from the gentile workers.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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On his TV show, he was wary of offending gentiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
According to the Torah — for gentiles, the first five books of the so-called Hebrew Bible — Jews celebrate the holiday Yom Kippur to honor the anniversary of when God forgave them.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2023
But when gentiles are cast as Golda Meir or Mrs. Maisel or Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there is little blowback.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
Moreover, their devotion paid off materially; after converting to Catholicism in mass baptisms, Frank’s followers take on Polish names and prosper as gentiles, with several even entering the nobility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
I understood now: I could stand with my family, or with the gentiles, on the one side or the other, but there was no foothold in between.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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