baptism
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Balfe: It was a bit of a baptism of fire.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
Michael Carrick looked to have been handed a baptism of fire with Manchester City and Arsenal dished up in the first two games of his reign.
From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026
Doctors like Mel King, whose neurodivergence manifests as open, radical caring and diagnostic precision, or Whitaker, who was revealed to be unhoused himself at the end of his first season baptism by disaster.
From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026
Reddin's first major job was to appoint Tandy and it has been a baptism of fire in the first campaign for the new head coach.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025
I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Vocabulary lists containing baptism
Power Suffix: -ism
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The Suffix -ism, Part 1
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