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Local spats could now feed into a mass movement that spread far beyond individual disputes between a peasant and a particularly nasty abbot or lord.
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Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
By the 1930s the newly emerging field of genetics was growing in popularity, based primarily on the studies of the Austrian biologist and Catholic abbot Gregor Mendel.
—D. Scott Schmid, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
But in 2022 the three nuns’ lives were changed when Markus Grasl, an abbot, took over the management of the building, the Times reported.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
Clarke, who was the abbot of St. Mary’s Abbey from 1975 to 1995, died in 2019.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 23 Aug. 2025
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Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
By the 1930s the newly emerging field of genetics was growing in popularity, based primarily on the studies of the Austrian biologist and Catholic abbot Gregor Mendel.
—D. Scott Schmid, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
But in 2022 the three nuns’ lives were changed when Markus Grasl, an abbot, took over the management of the building, the Times reported.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
Clarke, who was the abbot of St. Mary’s Abbey from 1975 to 1995, died in 2019.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 23 Aug. 2025
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“Abbot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abbot. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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abbot
noun
ab·bot
ˈab-ət 
: the head of a monastery for men
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