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congregation

[kong-gri-gay-shuhn] / ˌkɒŋ grɪˈgeɪ ʃən /


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Modern life turns out to be, among other things, a vast congregation of machines taking one another’s word for what time it is.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

He argued it was impossible to know what records were and were not held by a particular congregation or order if they controlled who could see them.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

At a Wednesday church Bible study in the Brickell neighborhood of Miami, Rev. Christopher Benek got several questions about AI from his congregation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Like nearly everyone I grew up around in this corner of Pennsylvania, Sundays in our house were a congregation in green, and I was the lone holdout in the pew, quietly pulling for New England.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

American independence became his ministerial calling, a mission he pursued with all the compressed energy of a latter-day Puritan pastor whose congregation was the American people.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

The food bank was a success and still operates today, having unfortunately outlived two of the congregations that founded it.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

The central demographic fact of many modern American congregations is this: Men in church on an ordinary Sunday are outnumbered and aging.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

On Thursday afternoon, Jewish congregations and organisations in the state took extra security measures and the Michigan State Police patroled other Jewish sites.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

Smoke could be seen billowing from Temple Israel, one of the largest Reform Judaism congregations in the country, after the attack and fire engines were on the scene.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

When the Southern California ministers were really whipping their congregations into a froth, they would get rolling on the subject of “the Road to Hell,” a byway that ran south from San Diego.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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