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Recent Examples of clergyman
Families raced down the main street to witness a grand ceremony, following a parade of soldiers, clergymen, Freemasons, musicians and Seneca tribesmen, including their venerable chief, Red Jacket.
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Adam L. Rovner, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2025
Chinese authorities have historically harassed this faction, reportedly detaining some of its clergymen and closing its churches.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
The technique seen in the clergyman also hasn’t been reported in scientific literature before, Nerlich added.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
The clergymen’s colors signaled their rank, and a seating chart could reveal which dignitary or humble believer sat where.
—Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
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Adam L. Rovner, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2025
Chinese authorities have historically harassed this faction, reportedly detaining some of its clergymen and closing its churches.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
The technique seen in the clergyman also hasn’t been reported in scientific literature before, Nerlich added.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
The clergymen’s colors signaled their rank, and a seating chart could reveal which dignitary or humble believer sat where.
—Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clergyman
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Fight Night became a way to explore the soul of that shift — through hustlers and preachers, cops and kingpins, veterans and dreamers.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
18 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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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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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
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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
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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
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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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Iran’s 'Supreme Leader' likely will dictate its response Much, if not all, of Iran’s response will be dictated not by its civilian government but by Khamenei, the Iranian cleric who has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
23 June 2025
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The 86-year-old cleric has named three candidates for his replacement, according to multiple media reports, but the names have not been made public.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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The end result was a new brand of ecclesiastics and lay Catholics who felt comfortable detaching themselves from Franco’s regime, or even fighting it head-on in a variety of forums, including student movements, intellectual circles, unions, political parties, and the media.—
Victor Pérez-Díaz,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Dec. 2013
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Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.—
Peter Brown,
The New York Review of Books,
24 Sep. 2020
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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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“Clergyman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clergyman. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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