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crosier

noun

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Definition of crosier

as in crook

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Recent Examples of crosier Some of these coins feature a bishop holding a crozier in his right hand, as noted in the press release. — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2025 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

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Noun

In a key role, Gathegi will play a small-time crook with big time ambitions who is in over his head, according to sources.

— Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026
The crook, wearing a green Nike Tech sweatsuit, fled empty handed west on 35th Ave.

— Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of crook

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After jiggling it in the lock for a bit, Brunson resorts to a sledge hammer and finally a chainsaw, without success.

— Tom Tapp, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026
The influencer has gone to extremes such as hitting himself in the face with a hammer so his bones grow back sharper and taking small amounts of methamphetamine to suppress his appetite.

— Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of hammer

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Jefferies, of New York, is in line to take the speaker’s gavel if Democrats win a majority in the House of Representatives in November.

— Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2026
Before Sue could answer, the defense objected, Judge Sullivan banged his gavel, and the question was stricken from the record.

— Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of gavel

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In the parking lot, Schenk offered us walking sticks for our hike, then led us through a gate in a chain-link fence meant to keep out wild pigs.

— Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2026
Its contents range from 19th-century anti-aging pills, to biologist Charles Darwin’s walking stick, to striking nude self-portraits by then-sexagenarian British photographer John Coplans.

— Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2026

Definition of walking stick

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Unfortunately for fans of the franchise, the beetle has come for an Owens this time, not one of their lovers.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2026
But when the death watch beetle starts creeping around Kylie’s boyfriend (Xolo Maridueña), an emotionally available DJ — the script’s words, not mine — the truth about her bloodline comes spilling out.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

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