reverend
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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
He told police he left the hotel after midnight to travel to Accra for a 06:00 meeting with a reverend before a scheduled flight back to the UK.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
A devil-horned tribute to Prodigy frontman Keith Flint was "respectful" despite its churchyard setting, a reverend said.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
“I don’t understand how as a pastor, he thinks that that’s acceptable,” Levy Armstrong, also an ordained reverend, said in a Washington Post interview Monday.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2026
“The reverend called it the Lord God in action through nature. ‘Wake!’ he yelled out to the whole congregation.”
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
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
Seven District residents — three reverends, two rabbis and two retired judges — filed the original complaint to the ABC board in mid-June.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 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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"The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, Act IV
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