curate

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Recent Examples of curate The ability to judge, curate, and refine AI output will be the new ultimate (and human) competitive advantage. Larry English, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025 Kingsley was born in 1819, the son of a curate who subjected him to a rigorous and frequently brutal education. Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025 It was supposed to be Trismegistus, but the maid tasked with telling the curate got distracted and forgot all but the first syllable. Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025 Each week, Maricopa and Pinal county reporter Sasha Hupka reports and curates must-know campaign news, insider exclusives and service-style voter tips from Arizona’s largest and most talented elections team. Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 19 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for curate
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Noun
  • The Christian city was a significant bishop's seat in the region during the Byzantine era.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Before their procession Saturday, the pilgrims gathered for a Mass in the Gesù church held by a senior Italian bishop, Francesco Savino.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis Phil Helsel The archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis delivered a message of hope after today’s mass shooting.
    Marc Santia, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In March 2025, Cosby and the Rev. Shelton J. Fabre, archbishop of Louisville, announced the 34,000-square-foot building would be donated to Simmons College for educational use.
    Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • With the Catholic Church suddenly left without a pope, Dean Thomas Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) convenes a conclave to elect a successor and opens the door to a closet full of skeletons surrounding the leading candidates.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Gazing at the lavish Italian-style gardens and intricate topiaries of the pope’s vast summer estate just outside of Rome, a local priest who immigrated to Waukegan from Mexico as a child marveled that he’s been entrusted with their care.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Even the prolific scientist and inventor Benjamin Franklin, who would play a key role in both the American Revolution and the foundation of the new republic, took time out of a diplomatic trip to England to visit the intelligent rector.
    Big Think, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Believers from across the Chicago area came to visit the Pilgrim Mother, which was blessed by Monsignor Efraín Hernández Díaz, rector of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.
    Paulina Czupryna, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The three killers might have gotten away with their crime if not for Casey, who eight months after the murder confessed to a clergyman and then led police to Pahler's mummified body.
    Chris Spargo, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The clergyman was from the Maryknoll mission, a Roman Catholic order that had long worked with the Japanese American community and was now assisting with their removal from the West Coast.
    Tracy Slater July 10, Literary Hub, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • In a letter accompanying McKnight’s, the Rev. John Riley, the archdiocese’s vicar general and chancellor, asked those with information or concerns regarding the matter to contact the Miami County Sheriff’s Department at (913) 294-3232.
    Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The saga began on Jan. 26 when Rev. John Melnick, vicar for clergy of the Archdiocese, announced the allegations and Jacobs’ removal from the Holy Trinity altar during Sunday Mass, which was also broadcast on YouTube.
    Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Ian Wilkinson, a pastor at a local church and the sole surviving guest of the lunch, told last month's hearing that the death of his wife had left him bereft.
    Alasdair Pal, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • She was also found guilty of attempting to murder Heather's husband, pastor Ian Wilkinson, 68, who remained hospitalized for weeks, 9 News reported at the time.
    Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Reverend Leah Daughtry is national presiding prelate of The House of the Lord Churches, co-convenor of Power Rising, author, and political strategist, having served as chief of staff of the DNC, CEO of the 2008 and 2016 Democratic Conventions, and an at-large member of the DNC.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
  • In the first half of the 20th Century, European powers commonly worked to influence the conclave ballots through their prelates and ambassadors.
    Time, Time, 7 May 2025

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