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noun

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Adjective
The clerical regime uses the IRGC for its terrorist and kidnapping operations abroad. Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025 Under the settlement agreement, UIA is prevented from collecting overpayments until protest or appeal rights have been exhausted and claimants are given a chance to request a waiver based on financial hardship, administrative or clerical error or a wage reporting error. Adrienne Roberts, Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2025 That warrant was later corrected after a clerical error listed Menendez Abdala’s birth year incorrectly. Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025 The Houthis are led by a family of clerical megalomaniacs who have been prophesying apocalyptic war since the early 2000s. Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for clerical
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clerical
Adjective
  • Landau, in Seoul for a Korea-US vice foreign ministerial meeting, said that the 316 South Koreans who returned home Friday on a chartered jet after being detained in Georgia will face no disadvantage when re-entering the US, according to South Korea’s foreign ministry.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The plaintiffs claim his acts denied access to justice, violated ministerial duties and undermined the public’s trust.
    Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Catholic priest Maximilian Kolbe (Polish actor Marcin Kwaśny) volunteers to die in place of another prisoner, joining nine others condemned by the Nazis, and urges hope and resistance through faith inside the suffocating cell.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The diocese, meanwhile, continues to see high-profile abuse cases involving priests.
    Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Rowland wrote these tunes surrounded by that pastoral beauty.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The answer isn’t to toggle back and forth between going all out and retreating into pastoral fantasies, but to recognize that for everything, there is a season.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • One recent Sunday evening, about 200 filled a Cincinnati church where preachers from several faith backgrounds urged them to demand his freedom.
    Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Their uncompromising moral clarity shaped the conscience of the West, later echoed by Christian preachers crusading for abolition, civil rights, and human dignity.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Husseini attempted to ply him with patronage, appointing him imam of a new mosque, but the cleric’s burgeoning following augured poorly for Husseini’s grip on power.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Soliman is known as an elegant dresser, but his apartment was in bachelor-pad disarray, a reflection of his long hours at the hospital and the abruptness of his detention, said his friends, also clerics.
    Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Clerical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clerical. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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