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Noun
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Gaudí, a committed Catholic, was known for wearing ragged clothes and did not immediately receive medical attention because onlookers mistook him for a beggar.—
Raf Sanchez,
NBC news,
9 June 2026 -
Kathleen Clark, an ethics lawyer who teaches at Washington University’s law school, told me, adding that this stance beggars belief.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
4 May 2026
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Throughout much of Buddhist history, and particularly in Theravada Buddhist contexts, mindfulness and its associated meditation methods have been the purview of mendicants (monks and nuns), who used mindfulness meditation to achieve trance states (jhana) leading to nirvana.—
Charles Preston,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
30 Apr. 2026
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An internationally famous leader who lived a mendicant’s life.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
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That’s our friend behind the counter, a drifter with an alcoholic mother, who’s a big character in the local scene.—
Francesco Pacifico,
The Dial,
9 Dec. 2025
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The logger and railsplitter occasionally encounters American eccentrics, like a chatty drifter prone to sporting bible verses and an old coot of a demolitions expert with a philosophical bent.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
23 Nov. 2025
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But in a plea reached in September, Alameda County prosecutors allowed Frederic, an Orlando resident, to plead no contest to a lesser offense of obstructing a public roadway, a misdemeanor count more typically associated with the prosecution of aggressive panhandlers.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
24 Nov. 2025
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Attorneys argued Glendale's rules were overly broad and discriminatorily enforced against impoverished panhandlers, and should have applied equally to high school sports teams holding signs advertising a car wash, or Girl Scouts selling cookies, attorneys said.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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Tom loves Rhoda’s pairing of sweet potato and urchin, calling it something genuinely new.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
9 June 2026
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Those who skin dive or scuba dive in deeper water in these areas are allowed to collect far higher numbers of urchins — up to 40 gallons per person.—
Kate Bradshaw,
Mercury News,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Almsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/almsman. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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