noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
preaching the gospel
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He traveled the southern states, preaching the gospel .
the gospel truth (= the complete truth )
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Don’t take everything she says as the gospel truth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
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Now back home, they are spreading the new gospel of dissent.
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Hughes called on ministers to vet the new gospel play for him.
■ NOUN
choir
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The entertainment included Stevie Nicks, Al Green, a huge gospel choir and 1,000 dancers.
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In the sequel, Whoopi will play a nun who helps a gospel choir in a city slum.
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Anyone who understands gospel choirs and Jam &038; Lewis will know what to expect.
music
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She also heard some hot gospel music - and liked it so much she asked for more.
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There are different types of gospel music .
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The next show, this Saturday night, covers gospel music .
singer
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Mr McCrea, a preacher and successful gospel singer , was parachuted in from the neighbouring Mid-Ulster constituency.
story
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The Narnia chronicles, for example, were written as a mythological expression of the gospel story .
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Right at the start of the gospel story we find the Spirit active in full vigour.
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The reason seems to be that the gospel story was formed backwards.
writer
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It was of course so important that it was recorded by the gospel writers no less than five times.
■ VERB
hear
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She also heard some hot gospel music - and liked it so much she asked for more.
preach
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For a long time, the way ahead barred, Pétain found no opening for preaching his gospel .
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If you actually worked for Jobs, he took time out from preaching the Mac gospel to meddle in your life.
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Both saw a beauty in vitality; both preached a gospel .
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Today some of their most visible representatives have become ostentatiously rich, and some even preach a gospel of wealth.
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She learned to pray at two or three, and felt chosen to preach the gospel to the heathen from eleven.
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It was only a few minutes into Sunday when Vice President Gore started preaching the gospel .
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Howard was regarded as a working fulfilment of the three-fold commission to teach, preach the gospel and heal the sick.
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They preach the gospel of self-sufficiency, railing against government handouts.
spread
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It spread the cooperative gospel amongst women as consumers and purchasers.
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While Buckley spread the gospel at the Moscone Center, the curtain went up on widespread management departures.
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Now back home, they are spreading the new gospel of dissent.
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And Coopers &038; Lybrand is one of a host of evangelists who spread this gospel .
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Keep spreading the gospel , it needs to be heard.
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Matthew, Mark, Luke and John spreading the gospel .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a gospel singer
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And exactly this, I would say, is the difference between a gospel of war and one of peace.
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Customer service has become the gospel of many an organization, and with good reason.
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His name is cited in the four gospels.
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In the gospels mention had been made of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
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It was the same with Cornelius, another great landmark in the spread of the gospel in Acts.
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Much of this insight has a valuable application to the communicating of the gospel .
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The gospel calls us to live in readiness for that hour.
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The gospels commend faith the size of a grain of mustard seed.