spiritual
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A new app seen as a spiritual successor to short-form video service Vine has been released to the public.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Varun Soni, USC’s dean of religious and spiritual life, delivered the ceremony’s invocation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi, who is also his spiritual guide, were both sentenced late last year to 17 years behind bars.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
A subversive, funny new show: HBO’s new Sunday night series Lanterns is the spiritual successor to Watchmen: a superhero show for people who don’t think they like superhero shows.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
It was his odd blindness, I think, to all problems of a personal nature which made him able at the end to transmute even Bunny’s highly substantive troubles into spiritual ones.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Orchestra for a prom that includes music by the Charleston-born composer Edmund Thornton Jenkins, one of the first people to introduce elements of jazz and spirituals into the classical repertoire.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
And while Anglo-American lullabies are typically written in major keys, Gershwin chose a minor one—evoking the depth and dignity of such African-American spirituals as “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Tines started out Robeson-esque performing “Some Enchanted Evening,” speaking Othello’s final monologue and singing African American spirituals, becoming angrier and yet also more ecstatic as he progressed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024
Celebrate Juneteenth with this concert that traces the evolution of African American music from traditional spirituals to more contemporary genres like gospel, jazz, R&B and hip-hop.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
Marian, tall, slim, and elegant, with her assured stage presence, sang ten songs in German, an aria in Italian, and several spirituals in English.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
Vocabulary lists containing spiritual
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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"Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." and "I Have a Dream"
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech
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