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Recent Examples of clerkship
The Supreme Court turned her down for a clerkship.
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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.
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Garrett Shanley Herald,
Miami Herald,
17 Feb. 2026
The Legal Accountability Project, which seeks to bring more transparency into the clerkship process, filed a formal complaint last year against a different federal judge, Sarah Merriam of the Second Circuit Appeals Court.
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Carrie Johnson,
NPR,
10 Feb. 2026
Then came a clerkship on the 10th Circuit and a job at a big law firm in Seattle.
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Charlotte Alter,
Time,
19 Nov. 2025
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
The Legal Accountability Project, which seeks to bring more transparency into the clerkship process, filed a formal complaint last year against a different federal judge, Sarah Merriam of the Second Circuit Appeals Court.
—
Carrie Johnson,
NPR,
10 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clerkship
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Parsi priesthood is hereditary, meaning all the boys here have been born into priestly families.
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The ability to analyze, explain, forecast, and build no longer belongs exclusively to a technical priesthood.
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Monks join the monastery at six to nine years of age and according to tradition many families will send one son into the monkhood.
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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.
Noun
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The Curia is also seriously underfunded and understaffed for the duties it is supposed to carry out, including the selection, vetting, appointment, and supervision of an episcopate that today consists of more than 5,000 Catholic bishops around the world.
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According to Reuters, the United States and European Union raised concerns that the resolution could be interpreted as creating a hierarchy among crimes against humanity by treating some atrocities as more serious than others.
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The result is a club conceived without the hierarchies that characterize some of its London counterparts—members shaped not by title or industry, but by curiosity and shared sensibility.
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“Clerkship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clerkship. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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