proselytizer

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Noun
  • The 69-year-old Augustinian missionary smiled and waved from the back of the truck to people waving U.S., Peruvian and other national flags, and stopped to bless some babies in the crowd.
    Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
  • Peruvians remember the young American priest who became pope Prevost, who lived in Peru as a missionary in the 1980s and the 1990s, would have heard about these accounts while serving as Bishop of Chiclayo starting in 2014, especially following the publication of Ugaz and Salinas’ bombshell book.
    Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • Under current Catholic doctrine, only men may become priests, based on the belief that Jesus chose male apostles.
    Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
  • Paprocki said he was struck by Pope Francis’ joy and reflected that the pontiff spoke to Paprocki and the other bishops with him not as a boss, but as a fellow apostle tasked with the same mission all priests have — to passionately advance their faith.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Named by Variety as one of 10 Spanish directors to watch in 2022, Azorín delivers a dual-timeline narrative set in Roman baths, where a 21st-century boy shares a hot bath with a 1st-century Roman soldier, both reflecting on their own frailty.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 19 May 2025
  • Pantoliano’s character, Angelo, was a soldier in the infantry, stationed in Hawaii in 1941.
    Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • This perspective has come to be associated with Peter Thiel, who introduced a generation of conservative-leaning acolytes to the work of the French theorist René Girard.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 28 May 2025
  • Then along came Donald Trump in February, taking over as the Kennedy Center chairman, filling the board with his acolytes.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • In these words, Peter, asked by the Master, together with the other disciples, about his faith in him, expressed the patrimony that the Church, through the apostolic succession, has preserved, deepened and handed on for two thousand years.
    Daniel Burke, NPR, 9 May 2025
  • Her inner 12-year-old self, one of the many disciples who adhered to the gospel of Blume, did just that — though Forever was not initially up for option.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • Its adherents numbered in the tens of thousands in 2018 and surged to millions by 2020.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
  • She was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, and left Russia with many other adherents of Hasidism on the famous escape trains to Poland.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But the fate of the votary is to require and receive a constant renewal of faith.
    Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Many remember the Cultural Revolution as a time of Red Guard excess—of the people terrorizing the votaries of the party.
    Mary Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
Noun
  • In her Instagram post, Maria Carolina warned her 173,000 followers to be careful when out on the road.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2025
  • On Instagram alone, both Life & Style and In Touch counted north of half a million followers in addition to robust websites.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025
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“Proselytizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proselytizer. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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