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crosier

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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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Aaron Taylor-Johnson is a British soldier trying to keep the bomb from going boom, while Theo James and Sam Worthington are part of a gang of crooks with some trust issues.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026
More than most pictures about crooks and the men who chase them, Melville’s movie gets into the heads of its characters and the heart of their wicked deeds with surgical precision.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of crook

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There have been plenty of in-game rotations, promising combinations, fluidity and creativity, but without the delivery of a final hammer blow.

— Cerys Jones, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
At a museum in eastern France, two men disguised with wigs used a sledgehammer and a hammer to smash a display case and make off with a 2,500-year-old gold necklace.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of hammer

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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
Jeffries, who is poised to become the House speaker if his party wins power and would be the first Democrat to wield the gavel since Pelosi, faces a party at a crossroads.

— Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

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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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