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clerics were sharply divided on the issue of whether the war was morally justified
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And Muqtada al-Sadr, the influential Shiite cleric and politician, whose candidates won the largest number of seats in 2021 elections, boycotted this election.
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Nabil Salih, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
The Associated Press reported that the pope will meet political leaders, Christian and Muslim clerics and families affected by overlapping crises.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 27 Nov. 2025
Leading up to it, mass anti-government demonstrations against the Shah drew different factions seeking change— including leftists, students, clerics, nationalists and minorities, among others.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Writer-director Rian Johnson, 51, offers not one but two clerics – Josh O’Connor’s young priest and Josh Brolin’s fire and brimstone grey-bearded Monsignor – plus Glenn Close’s indispensable church lady in an upstate New York small-town community.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 23 Nov. 2025
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Nabil Salih, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
The Associated Press reported that the pope will meet political leaders, Christian and Muslim clerics and families affected by overlapping crises.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 27 Nov. 2025
Leading up to it, mass anti-government demonstrations against the Shah drew different factions seeking change— including leftists, students, clerics, nationalists and minorities, among others.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Writer-director Rian Johnson, 51, offers not one but two clerics – Josh O’Connor’s young priest and Josh Brolin’s fire and brimstone grey-bearded Monsignor – plus Glenn Close’s indispensable church lady in an upstate New York small-town community.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 23 Nov. 2025
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“Cleric.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cleric. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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cleric
noun
cler·ic
ˈkler-ik 
: a member of the clergy
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