variants
or crozier
as in crook
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Recent Examples of crosier
World & Nation Notre Dame’s resurrection: Its chief architect on rebuilding France’s ‘heart’ in 5 years
Dec. 6, 2024
The ceremony began with Ulrich symbolically reopening Notre Dame’s grand wooden doors, tapping them three times with his fire-scarred crosier.
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Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
Monsignor Laurent Ulrich, the archbishop of Paris, will then officially reopen the cathedral by banging his crosier on the main door.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 29 Nov. 2024
McElroy moved slowly during the service, often resting his hands on a wooden crosier, a staff shaped like a shepherd’s crook.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
Monsignor Laurent Ulrich, the archbishop of Paris, will then officially reopen the cathedral by banging his crosier on the main door.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 29 Nov. 2024
McElroy moved slowly during the service, often resting his hands on a wooden crosier, a staff shaped like a shepherd’s crook.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crosier
Noun
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This generation of cyber crooks buys and mines leaked records from last year’s 1.35 billion breach notices — everything from our email and phone numbers to recent purchases — to pre-fill their scripts.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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Skilled thieves target specific homes and literally knock on the door and otherwise check to find a time when nobody is home, then the crooks burglarize the home quickly looking for jewelry and cash.—
Greg Fisher,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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During the exercises, a half-naked soldier was seen smashing a stone placed on a fellow soldier's back with a hammer.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 May 2025
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Police said that John had been poisoned with prescription medication and Lois had been struck with a hammer and fatally stabbed in June 2019.—
Lesley Cosme Torres,
People.com,
15 May 2025
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Once Gottfried is sworn in, the two parties will have even strength on most committees, with co-chairs who will take turns holding the gavel, except for an oversight committee that Republicans will control to investigate fraud in government programs.—
Steve Karnowski,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2025
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Even without access to their own future picks, the Bucks are in such a bad spot that the only logical move is to bang the gavel on a Giannis bidding war and rebuild with the spoils.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Spectators crowded the sidelines, cheering intensely for their team with each thwack of the croquet mallet.—
Tyrone Turner,
NPR,
12 Apr. 2025
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Use It To Help Flatten Chicken Breasts Before pounding any meat to create cutlets, use wax paper in between it and your mallet to help avoid any unwanted stickiness and keep it in place.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
6 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The same kind of nationwide monitoring by amateur naturalists doesn’t exist for less charismatic insects such as walking sticks.—
Eliza Grames,
The Conversation,
6 Mar. 2025
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Russian troops on walking sticks were targeted on the front line in Ukraine, a battlefield video appears to show.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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These trees should be pruned only during winter dormancy, when the sap-feeding beetles that spread Dutch elm disease are inactive.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
17 May 2025
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Whether the knowledge comes from humans or beetles, the AGI wouldn’t especially care.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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John Franklin-Myers mauls RT Rosengarten and gets sack, knocking Baltimore out of FG position.—
Matt Schubert,
The Denver Post,
3 Nov. 2024
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Cama’s 7-point try box came in the 74th minute and was a result of the Legion muscling their way to a series of successful scrums, mauls and rucks before Cama punched it over inside the 5-meter line area.—
Ivan Carter,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Apr. 2024
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“Crosier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crosier. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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