Both Uses
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- Ira slowly stood and addressed the congregation.†
Chpt 4. *congregation = people who worship together in the same building
- But a friend of his son Corky, Dale Collins, remembered noticing a sign of the pain Ed kept inside: "In church there was a table in front with little U.S. flags representing the boys of the congregation that had gone off to war.†
Chpt 15.
Definitions:
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(1)
(congregation as in: the congregation voted) people who worship together in the same building
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, congregation can reference any group of people, animals, or things collected together.