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reverend

[rev-er-uhnd, rev-ruhnd] / ˈrɛv ər ənd, ˈrɛv rənd /


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The former reality TV host could not help but compare himself to the late reverend King.

From Barron's Jun. 4, 2026

"ICE has even been arresting airport workers while they are on the job," said one of those who protested, reverend Mariah Furness Tollgaard of Hamline Church United Methodist.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 2026

Craig “The Hatchet Man” Johnson, a self-described reverend, the founder and president of educational advocacy organization First Amendment, Inc, and the host of conservative radio program “The REALLY, Real, Deal,” is one such endorser.

From Salon Jun. 21, 2025

Church services are being held to remember two firefighters and a 57-year-old man killed in a fire at an Oxfordshire business park, as a local reverend said "our hearts are broken".

From BBC May 18, 2025

Before darkness fell on the night of September 15, the reverend and his deacons closed the front doors of the wonderful old Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

No doctors, no lawyers, no journalists, no politicians, no reverends.

From Salon Dec. 9, 2022

They included two religious reverends, two senior penal system staff and two academics from the University of Sydney.

From BBC Apr. 23, 2022

I come from a family of reverends and pastors, and then here comes my little gay self.

From New York Times Apr. 20, 2022

They can be reverends, rabbis, priests or pastors.

From Washington Times Nov. 12, 2018

It was on this trip that he had acquired most of his distaste for the reverends.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey




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