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Noun
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Nevertheless, the walking dead break in anyway and the boy runs for his life, hiding out in a church where his father is the priest.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
18 June 2025 -
But, in many ways, Chryseis—in spite of the apparent privileging of her name and her identity as a priest’s daughter that makes its way into the later stories about her—is the more silent, the more difficult to bring back to life, of the two.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 June 2025
Noun
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Descended from a long line of clergymen, he was apprenticed to a bookseller at fifteen, which seems to have decided his professional fate.—
Merve Emre,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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The daughter of an Anglican clergyman, Emily lived almost all of her life in Haworth, a remote village in the southern Pennines, hundreds of miles from literary London.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
6 June 2025
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The preacher's son said his father has been in the ICU and never regained consciousness.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
18 June 2025
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These were often portraits of people at work—jockeys, preachers, movie stars—that showcase the indiscriminate pleasure Crews took in shoptalk.—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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In an area that used to produce influential Catholic churchmen the way the Dodgers churned out Rookies of the Year, Gomez has amounted to the living equivalent of a hair shirt: a mode of piety that serves no one but the wearer.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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Martini was a key figure in a group of churchmen who met annually in St. Gallen, Switzerland, to ponder how best to blunt John Paul and Ratzinger’s reactionary thrust.—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025
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The gestures of Darrell Grand Moultrie’s choreography thread together the divine, in the narration of those scenes about Marimba’s origins, with the bumping and grinding of the club, which touches the latter with the air of the holy.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
21 May 2025
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Smitten by him and enraptured by the practice of speaking in tongues, which was thought to be channeling the divine, Aimee married him in 1908.—
Carolyn Kellogg,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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As a Lutheran deacon, Ross Murray, who’s the vice president of education and training at the GLAAD Media Institute, spends a lot of time working with LGBTQ+ teenagers.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
18 June 2025
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On April 30, the Toms River Township Council placed an ordinance on its agenda to condemn the church's 10-acre site, which includes the parish house, auditorium, school, sanctuary and deacon’s residence, under its eminent domain power.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
26 May 2025
Noun
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The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in the wind.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacramento Bee,
18 Apr. 2024
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The Silver family also includes Jonah’s mother, district attorney Mae Silver (Gloria Reuben); his grandfather, reverend Edwin Peters (Ernie Hudson); his sister, detective Lena Silver (Sonequa Martin-Green); and his stepsister, Sarah (Maggie Lawson).—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
11 June 2025
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His deep, resonant bass voice reaches its full potential in the reverend’s moving and emotional final oration.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 June 2025
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