Thesaurus results for GOSPEL

gospel

noun

ˈgä-spəl

Definition of gospel

as in ideology

the basic beliefs or guiding principles of a person or group her private gospel is to do good cheerfully and without any expectation of reward

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Recent Examples of gospel The music filled the corridors, led by another of Sellers' cousins, Anthony Brown, an accomplished gospel singer with worldwide reach who has a ministry at the First Baptist Church of Glenarden in Prince George's County. — Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2026 And so here was this acoustic folk singer who won all the awards, and here’s this a cappella gospel jazz group. — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026 Other commissions include a monument to honor Native voices, a sculpture of gospel singer and Civil Rights activist Mahalia Jackson, and a site to recognize the survivors who were tortured by the Chicago Police Department during the 1970s-1990s. — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026 The group developed a signature sound that mixed funk, R&B, soul, jazz, gospel, rock and pop. — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gospel

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In a country increasingly divided along political ideologies, partisan politics are coming together to answer the age old dynamic between privacy and security.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
This week, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly declared his opposition to the event, labeling RSS ideology as exclusionary and contrary to the pluralistic views of the city.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of ideology

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Thus polytheistic worship of deities and monist philosophy are not opposed but rather different ways of reaching the divine.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
For three decades, in an increasingly noisy and stress-filled world, Miraval Arizona has embraced its philosophy of Life in Balance, pioneering the concept of transformative wellbeing through mindfulness.

— Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2026

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Less apparent, though, is the dramatic shift in domestic security doctrine that undergirds these efforts.

— Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026
Greece sees the system as central to modernizing its forces amid tensions with NATO neighbor Turkey, embracing new doctrines to counter ballistic missiles, drones, cyber threats and other evolving forms of warfare.

— Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026

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