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  • noun Plural form of megachurch.

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Examples

  • But Scott Thumma, a Hartford Seminary sociologist who studies megachurches, is not so certain.

    RNB Roundup: a compendium of religion news stories 2009

  • But Mike Huckabee surged this winter, as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama did their God-dances in megachurches and at the debates.

    Born Again 2008

  • But Mike Huckabee surged this winter, as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama did their God-dances in megachurches and at the debates.

    Born Again 2008

  • But Mike Huckabee surged this winter, as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama did their God-dances in megachurches and at the debates.

    Born Again 2008

  • We heard those church observers who taught that the fastest growing churches, the churches of the future were "megachurches" - young, large congregations.

    A Peculiar Prophet 2009

  • Saddleback is part of a growing number of city-sized Christian congregations known as megachurches.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Only a generation ago, Evangelical Protestants were flocking to so-called megachurches with congregations that numbered in the thousands.

    Young Evangelicals Find Faith In Emerging Church Movement 2011

  • And what we found was one of those so-called megachurches, a church with 10,000 parishioners, and it really symbolized how divided African-Americans are over the top two candidates.

    CNN Transcript Jan 21, 2008 2008

  • PHILLIPS: Like manna (ph) from heaven, vast amounts of donated money flow into the so-called megachurches each and every week, and none of it flows out in taxes.

    CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2007 2007

  • He said those churches have emerged at a time when many of the more visible evangelical churches, the so-called megachurches, have located in suburban areas.

    Philocrites: February 2005 Archives 2005

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