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Advertisement President of Iran Ali Khamenei, center, sits amongst clergymen in Jamaran mosque during an audience with Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran, March 1982.
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Karl Vick, Time, 28 Feb. 2026
The pompous clergyman enters the life of the Bennet family, his distant cousins, with the assumption that, given his respectable position and benefactor, Lady Catherine De Bourgh, one of those daughters would be happy to marry him.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
Garage owner and keen early automobilist Henry Frederick Stanley Morgan, the son of a rural English clergyman, built his first car, an eponymous prototype, in 1909.
—Jamie Kitman, Air Mail, 21 Feb. 2026
The fanfare includes clergymen blessing the fishing boats, plus plenty of music, food, and meet-and-greets with real fishermen.
—Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 18 Feb. 2026
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Karl Vick, Time, 28 Feb. 2026
The pompous clergyman enters the life of the Bennet family, his distant cousins, with the assumption that, given his respectable position and benefactor, Lady Catherine De Bourgh, one of those daughters would be happy to marry him.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
Garage owner and keen early automobilist Henry Frederick Stanley Morgan, the son of a rural English clergyman, built his first car, an eponymous prototype, in 1909.
—Jamie Kitman, Air Mail, 21 Feb. 2026
The fanfare includes clergymen blessing the fishing boats, plus plenty of music, food, and meet-and-greets with real fishermen.
—Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 18 Feb. 2026
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“Clergyman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clergyman. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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clergyman
noun
cler·gy·man
ˈklər-ji-mən 
: a member of the clergy
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