clerkship

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Recent Examples of clerkship The Supreme Court turned her down for a clerkship. Vivian Yee, New York Times, 20 June 2026 The attorney general’s prior legal experience includes a clerkship for a federal appeals court judge and a brief stint in private practice. Garrett Shanley Herald, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2026 The Legal Accountability Project, which seeks to bring more transparency into the clerkship process, filed a formal complaint last year against a different federal judge, Sarah Merriam of the Second Circuit Appeals Court. Carrie Johnson, NPR, 10 Feb. 2026 Then came a clerkship on the 10th Circuit and a job at a big law firm in Seattle. Charlotte Alter, Time, 19 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clerkship
Noun
  • Parsi priesthood is hereditary, meaning all the boys here have been born into priestly families.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
  • The ability to analyze, explain, forecast, and build no longer belongs exclusively to a technical priesthood.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • Monks join the monastery at six to nine years of age and according to tradition many families will send one son into the monkhood.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 16 June 2026
  • The gig becomes a lonely endeavor, however, when the pandemic hits and he’s confined to a depopulated campus, sent unwillingly into a kind of monkhood.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • The Curia is also seriously underfunded and understaffed for the duties it is supposed to carry out, including the selection, vetting, appointment, and supervision of an episcopate that today consists of more than 5,000 Catholic bishops around the world.
    Massimo Faggioli, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2018
Noun
  • After what authorities are billing as a massive procession in central Tehran on Monday the remains will be taken to the seminary city of Qom, the centre of Iran's Shi'ite hierarchy, for ceremonies on Tuesday.
    Parisa Hafezi, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • Defenders of slavery claimed that the institution was required by the natural hierarchy of humans reflected in the Constitution’s provisions.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 2 July 2026

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“Clerkship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clerkship. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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