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missionary

[mish-uh-ner-ee] / ˈmɪʃ əˌnɛr i /


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Charleson was 40 at the time, known for playing Scottish Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell in “Chariots of Fire.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

For a couple of years, Trinidad juggled barber college, work at FedEx and missionary work through his L.A. church, Iglesia De Jesucristo.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

The Traitors star was 23 years old and travelling the world onboard a Christian evangelical missionary ship when he came out to his fellow church members.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

The first American most foreigners met was a merchant or a missionary, not a Marine.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

The missionary ladies tried to be cute and, giggling, they curtsied back.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

Tassone said Ross had visited other friends in Norway and Denmark, and had supported missionaries financially.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

A new San Gabriel mission was being built, five years after Franciscan missionaries had founded the original mission in a flood zone, which flooded.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

Even if English Protestants were late compared to the Spanish and Portuguese Catholic missionaries, Mr. Ryrie shows that John Calvin, John Knox and other reformers were laying the groundwork for the birth of global Christianity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

There have been many devastating school fires in Kenya, where boarding schools are common as a colonial legacy of missionaries and the British.

From Barron's May 28, 2026

The missionaries supplied us with uniforms instead: shorts, a shirt, shoes, sometimes a jacket.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola




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