denomination
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Catholics overtook Methodists as the largest denomination in the nation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
Levy plays Nicky, a pastor at a sparsely attended suburban New Jersey church of no evident denomination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
In December, the head of Hegseth’s church’s denomination, Doug Wilson, celebrated the secretary as a counterweight to “men with a My-Little-Pony fetish.”
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026
But for High Priest Selah, of Antigua's Nyabinghi denomination of Rastafarians, memories of the harassment he and others once suffered still linger.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
Some men only attended services in their own denomination.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
City Councilmembers Imelda Padilla and Heather Hutt also contributed, though in smaller denominations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
They don’t form a single organization but are unified by ideals shared across many denominations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Of those 31 categories, 22 are variations of Christianity, most major Protestant denominations.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Runners-up win smaller denominations of cash and prize packages.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
When they did, they usually left behind their Calvinist denominations and became members of the elite church linked to the state Church of England.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Vocabulary lists containing denomination
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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