catechumen

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Noun
  • Just kind of a handful or random observations with nothing that even the most novice player doesn't already know.
    Gene McCaffrey, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The fights, without a doubt, grabbed the attention of novice fans everywhere, but not everyone was a fan of it.
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Naturally, that’s the unranked newcomer, Akio (Scott Keiji Takeda): an 18-year-old from a troubled background who, though small by sumo standards, has dreamed of becoming a wrestler since childhood.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Brunson has since earned the nod twice, this time as a starter in the 2024-25 season alongside newcomer Karl-Anthony Towns.
    Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Etheridge helped recruit numerous blue-chip recruits at his last Power 4 job — which was at his alma mater, Auburn.
    Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Trump was ultimately forced to revise that proposal, banning new transgender recruits but allowing existing trans troops to stay in the military.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • There was another case involving 2024’s Immaculate and The First Omen, and both films deal with two young American novitiates whose bodily autonomy is forcibly taken away in the most disturbing ways imaginable.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2024
  • In a retreat focused on the Virgin Mary held one month before the group was to enter the novitiate, the Mistress of Postulants told them that the 10 months of the postulancy are like the months of pregnancy—that the postulants were, in a very real spiritual sense, gestating Jesus in their wombs.
    Rebecca J. Lester, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
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“Catechumen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catechumen. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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