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Recent Examples of abbé
After his death just five years later, the paintings were inventoried simply as depictions of the basilica and square without any mention of the poor abbe.
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Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 25 Feb. 2018
Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 25 Feb. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abbé
Noun
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It was said that the room contained a troubled spirit and that the parson was supposed to bless the space.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Among the beetle-collecting country parsons of his day, it was often assumed that the world had been created six thousand years ago and that many geological anomalies could be explained by Noah’s Flood.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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When the university rector, church historian Karl Heussi, opposed Frick’s request, the students’ association, already dominated by National Socialist sympathizers, rebelled.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Nov. 2025
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In an eight-page letter, Rachel Sheridan, the school’s rector, said there were no assurances from the federal government its scrutiny of the university would end with Ryan’s resignation.—
Lexi Lonas Cochran,
The Hill,
14 Nov. 2025
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The clergyman connected Webster with another church member who was a criminal-defense lawyer.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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With intact skin and tissue, the mummified body, thought to be an 18th century clergyman, had drawn speculation of healing properties and even rumors of being poisoned.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
23 Dec. 2025
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Moore is accused of killing his father, brother, uncle, 7-year-old cousin, a church pastor, and the pastor’s brother in incidents that sprawled across three different crime scenes on Friday evening.—
Emily Hallas,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Jan. 2026
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Their father, Matt Heinricy, is a pastor and basketball junkie.—
Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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Fast forward two years, after a period of poor mental health following my injury, the realization of the vicar’s sentence really hit.—
Abigail Wise,
Outside,
3 Jan. 2026
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Thankfully, the book was saved by being thrown out of a window by a local vicar, Johann Erichsons.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Dec. 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 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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“Abbé.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abb%C3%A9. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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