CLERKSHIP Synonyms: 14 Similar and Opposite Words

clerkship

noun

as in priesthood

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Recent Examples of clerkship Seven weeks later, Usha began a clerkship at the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts. — Kate Andersen Brower, Vanity Fair, 12 Aug. 2026 Working in the emergency room for the first time during her internal medicine clerkship feels like encountering a tsunami, as classroom knowledge and limited clinical experiences are suddenly, and forcefully, put to the test. — Tahneer Oksman, NPR, 23 July 2026 The Supreme Court turned her down for a clerkship. — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 20 June 2026 The attorney general’s prior legal experience includes a clerkship for a federal appeals court judge and a brief stint in private practice. — Garrett Shanley Herald, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2026 Then came a clerkship on the 10th Circuit and a job at a big law firm in Seattle. — Charlotte Alter, Time, 19 Nov. 2025 The nominee was an appeals court judge named Clarence Thomas who Leo had befriended during a clerkship. — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023

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Noun

Parsi priesthood is hereditary, meaning all the boys here have been born into priestly families.

— Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
The ability to analyze, explain, forecast, and build no longer belongs exclusively to a technical priesthood.

— Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 16 June 2026

Definition of priesthood

Noun

Monks join the monastery at six to nine years of age and according to tradition many families will send one son into the monkhood.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 16 June 2026
The gig becomes a lonely endeavor, however, when the pandemic hits and he’s confined to a depopulated campus, sent unwillingly into a kind of monkhood.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2026

Definition of monkhood

Noun

The diaconate represents the Church’s third degree of holy orders, below the presbyterate, or priests, and episcopate, or bishops.

— Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 5 Dec. 2025
Vatican observers have long speculated that Francis saw Prevost as a potential successor, especially given his rapid rise and central role in shaping the modern episcopate.

— Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025

Definition of episcopate

Noun

Khurram Ismail, Chief Product Officer at SanDisk talked about their vision of additional layers in the storage and memory hierarchy for storing persistent KV cache as shown below.

— Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
There are different roles for George Syrianos, Pedro Ferreira and Andy Reid within the Forest hierarchy, as the club has undergone a restructuring behind the scenes.

— Paul Taylor, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

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