spiritual
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This morning, he’s in Manhattan’s Flatiron district, at the flagship store for On, the sleek Swiss apparel brand for whom he’s both an investor and spiritual embodiment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Others are driven by the spiritual quest itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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
I don’t know what Grandma told her old friends, but for weeks after that they’d all ask sweetly about my health, both physical and spiritual.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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Then you have to retreat with your mind into the music, and allow the music to express a kind of deep belief, like what the Negro spirituals express.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
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
Following worldwide protests over Floyd’s 2020 murder by police in Minneapolis, his brother Terrence Floyd joined an effort to fuse rap, gospel and spirituals on an album of protest songs.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
All around, the spirits hummed their harmonious spirituals and murmured quietly to one another, their glow pulsing in time with the shimmer growing in the dark waters.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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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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