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clerics were sharply divided on the issue of whether the war was morally justified
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Consider a record that has been kept in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps at Hohenpeissenberg since 1781, when Augustinian clerics first began recording temperatures.
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Chris Mooney, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025
Shiite clerics, Baluch fishermen, and Tehrani teenagers have all spent hours listening to Googoosh.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2025
And Muqtada al-Sadr, the influential Shiite cleric and politician, whose candidates won the largest number of seats in 2021 elections, boycotted this election.
—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
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Chris Mooney, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025
Shiite clerics, Baluch fishermen, and Tehrani teenagers have all spent hours listening to Googoosh.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2025
And Muqtada al-Sadr, the influential Shiite cleric and politician, whose candidates won the largest number of seats in 2021 elections, boycotted this election.
—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
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“Cleric.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cleric. Accessed 29 Dec. 2025.
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cleric
noun
cler·ic
ˈkler-ik 
: a member of the clergy
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