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Recent Examples of clergyperson What makes the family tradition sustainable in central Massachusetts, where the Vallelis now live, is a pastor-sharing arrangement between two congregations that couldn’t afford a full-time clergyperson on their own. G. Jeffrey MacDonald, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clergyperson
Noun
  • Nevertheless, the walking dead break in anyway and the boy runs for his life, hiding out in a church where his father is the priest.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 18 June 2025
  • But, in many ways, Chryseis—in spite of the apparent privileging of her name and her identity as a priest’s daughter that makes its way into the later stories about her—is the more silent, the more difficult to bring back to life, of the two.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • These were often portraits of people at work—jockeys, preachers, movie stars—that showcase the indiscriminate pleasure Crews took in shoptalk.
    Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • The preacher's son said his father has been in the ICU and never regained consciousness.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Descended from a long line of clergymen, he was apprenticed to a bookseller at fifteen, which seems to have decided his professional fate.
    Merve Emre, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • The daughter of an Anglican clergyman, Emily lived almost all of her life in Haworth, a remote village in the southern Pennines, hundreds of miles from literary London.
    Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Randy Adams is a pastor at Church on the Rock, a Protestant church about an hour from Kentucky’s capital, Frankfort.
    Lisa Fletcher, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2025
  • But some were accompanied by a pastor, volunteer or family member.
    Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 13 June 2025

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“Clergyperson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clergyperson. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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