HOLY JOES Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

Holy Joes

noun

plural of Holy Joe, slang

as in priests

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Unlike Christian priests and medicine men, who generally command respect, rainmakers are sometimes seen as malicious people who retaliate against whole communities for quarrels with their neighbors.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026
Emigration has also hollowed out entire professions, emptying hospitals of health workers, schools of teachers, and even churches of priests and pastors, on a scale that Cubans have never seen before.

— Will Freeman, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2026

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Noun

In Iraq, the faction earned rebukes from clerics who had previously supported global jihad as well as from more mainstream religious leaders.

— Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2026
After six months of war, Iran’s leadership has coalesced around a hard core of military generals and clerics long entrenched in the ruling theocracy.

— Lee Keath, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026

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The relationship between Xi and Zhang went back decades, extending not just to their childhoods but all the way back to their fathers, who were comrades in arms in China’s ferocious civil war.

— Jonathan A. Czin, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026
The victims were mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, friends and coworkers.

— Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2026

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