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as in preacher
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as in moralist
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The Gospel authors, far from being community leaders preserving oral sayings for largely illiterate followers, were highly literate members of a small, erudite upper crust, distant in experience, attitude, and geography from any Galilean peasant preachers.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025 -
Shocking video has been released showing the moment a pastor had an apparent gun pointed in his face by an activist – but the cool-headed preacher hardly moves a muscle.—
Michael Dorgan,
Fox News,
15 Mar. 2025
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The concept of consciousness has kept a small army of moralists, physicists, and theologians busy for generations.—
Melanie Stetson Freeman,
The Christian Science Monitor,
22 Nov. 2024
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Satirists are famously also moralists, and Houellebecq is no exception.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
24 Oct. 2024
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Centuries after being burned at the stake, a witch named Jennifer (Veronica Lake) magically reappears and tries to torment the descendant of the puritan who led the charge against her — only to fall in love with him.—
Clark Collis,
EW.com,
18 Oct. 2024
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Naysayers and scene puritans are too late to tear down Turnstile; the Baltimore band heard it all before its third album even dropped anyway.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
1 Oct. 2024
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Mancuso said sap slow readers and dendrometers are used to monitor the health of the trees and plants.—
Jamie Hailstone,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Made by History takes readers beyond the headlines with articles written and edited by professional historians.—
Made by History,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
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But Philip Siphong Onphitak, the village religious teacher, or catechist, assumed leadership of his flock, keeping up resistance until Dec. 16, when he was murdered in the jungle, reportedly by Boonlue.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
18 Nov. 2019
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Lacchin was quietly transferred to a nearby mission; his driver and a catechist at Archer’s Post, Benjamin Ekwam, was chosen to marry Sabina.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
9 Oct. 2019
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“Moralizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralizer. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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