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Recent Examples of clergyman
So Harald Schiffl now speaks on the clergyman's behalf.
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Esme Nicholson, NPR, 4 Nov. 2025
Hopkins' performance is wide-ranging, swinging the pendulum from an eccentric clergyman to a man overcome by darkness.
—Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, cousin Edmund, an aspiring clergyman, falls under the charms of Mary Crawford, written by Austen as a charming but immoral woman.
—Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
Blanc seeks to interview alongside another clergyman (O'Connor, 35).
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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Esme Nicholson, NPR, 4 Nov. 2025
Hopkins' performance is wide-ranging, swinging the pendulum from an eccentric clergyman to a man overcome by darkness.
—Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, cousin Edmund, an aspiring clergyman, falls under the charms of Mary Crawford, written by Austen as a charming but immoral woman.
—Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
Blanc seeks to interview alongside another clergyman (O'Connor, 35).
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clergyman
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Smart’s kidnapper was Brian David Mitchell, a street preacher her family met downtown and hired for odd jobs around the home.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Anderson was halfway through writing what would be his next project, a story of an oil man locked in a power struggle with a preacher in the early part of the 20th century.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
22 Jan. 2026
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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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For example, of the three priests who came here many centuries ago to fast and meditate—and who are considered the ancestors of the locals.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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Take the scene in which Father Andrew, the town priest, reluctantly helps Louise sign up for the Inner Beauty Pageant.—
Hannah Gold,
New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2026
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David was a doctor at the hospital and a deacon at his church.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
20 Jan. 2026
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Powell’s lawyers also introduced documentation that Lorch, who began coaching the Hawks in 1961, served on Riverside’s board of deacons and board of trustees, as well as several church committees, and that the Hawks’ basketball success was touted multiple times in Riverside’s official newsletter.—
Luke Cyphers,
Sportico.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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Matthew Long, a reverend at Portland’s Sudanese Fellowship Presbyterian Church, said that his community of South Sudanese worshippers panicked after hearing the news of TPS ending.—
Yamiche Alcindor,
NBC news,
21 Dec. 2025
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Weeks before he would be crowned that year’s winner, a local reverend declared his commitment to supporting the city’s growing reputation.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
14 Dec. 2025
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Many chanted support for Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the Shah, or King, deposed in the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought the clerics to power.—
Roxana Saberi,
Time,
9 Jan. 2026
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Iran has been a theocracy since 1979, when clerics toppled a secular monarch allied with the West, leading to the formation of the Islamic Republic led by Khomenei.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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What makes the family tradition sustainable in central Massachusetts, where the Vallelis now live, is a pastor-sharing arrangement between two congregations that couldn’t afford a full-time clergyperson on their own.—
G. Jeffrey MacDonald,
The Christian Science Monitor,
14 Apr. 2020
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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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This shop for ecclesiastics has an exquisite selection of high-quality pieces.—
Zoe Ruffner,
Vogue,
19 Dec. 2019
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“Clergyman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clergyman. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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