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Recent Examples of chaplain
Having discovered the power of prayer, the prisoner strikes up a relationship with a young chaplain and takes communion for the first time in years.
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Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025
Chips and Salsa For Thomas Settles, chaplain for the University of Georgia football team, chips and salsa are a must any time of day or year.
—Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2025
The volunteer chaplain at KHH, Reverend David Clark, was able to secure a special wedding license for the couple in just 48 hours.
—Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
The demonstration on the bridge was held in support of Imam Ayman Soliman, an Egyptian immigrant and former Cincinnati Children's chaplain who was detained by ICE several days before.
—Quinlan Bentley, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Nov. 2025
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Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025
Chips and Salsa For Thomas Settles, chaplain for the University of Georgia football team, chips and salsa are a must any time of day or year.
—Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2025
The volunteer chaplain at KHH, Reverend David Clark, was able to secure a special wedding license for the couple in just 48 hours.
—Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
The demonstration on the bridge was held in support of Imam Ayman Soliman, an Egyptian immigrant and former Cincinnati Children's chaplain who was detained by ICE several days before.
—Quinlan Bentley, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaplain
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Shapiro came to Obama's defense during the primary campaign after Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, made anti-Israel and antisemitic comments.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026
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Levy Armstrong, who was arrested with at least two others Thursday for an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a church where an ICE official serves as a pastor, released her own video.—
Jack Brook,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2026
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Drawn to her difference, neighbors and coworkers treat Pavitra as a confessor and sounding board for their own preoccupations.—
Miriam Gershow,
Literary Hub,
1 Dec. 2025
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Instead, the central question and driving force is how Aggie and Brian will lure Nile out of the walled fortress afforded by wealth and into the trap of spilling his guts to a confessor.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
13 Nov. 2025
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Sophie D’Amours, rector at Université Laval, adds that the university prioritizes the wellbeing and growth of its employees in part because the hope is for employees to stay long-term and build their careers at ULaval.—
Rachel Rabkin Peachman,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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Ryan said Sheridan kept other board members in the dark, including the rector at the time of his departure.—
Lexi Lonas Cochran,
The Hill,
24 Nov. 2025
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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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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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Before that, there were Picts, Celts, and early Christian missionaries (it is thought that the great Irish warrior-saint Columba may have visited Eilean Shona).—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Jan. 2026
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The informal garden style — of which the English garden is the most notable type — dates to the late 17th century when Jesuit missionaries began sending sketches of Chinese Imperial gardens back to England.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
17 Jan. 2026
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This behavior would earn them a warning from the bishop.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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Joliet Diocese officials say there is no announcement for neither an interim bishop nor a replacement and said those decisions are up to the Vatican.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC News,
17 June 2022
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Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.—
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1 Dec. 2020
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“Chaplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaplain. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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