as in pastoral
of, relating to, or characteristic of the clergy
a priest conscientiously tending to his ministerial duties
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Recent Examples of ministerial
As the adrenaline levels rose on Monday and Tuesday, and the familiar choreography of another British political crisis began to play out—ministerial resignations, spiky statements on X—the collateral damage that Starmer had warned against started to encroach, once again, upon the scene.
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Sam Knight, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
On Monday, six lower-ranking ministerial aides quit, and several senior members of Starmer's governing cabinet urged him to set out a plan for his resignation and to hold a party leadership contest, according to The Guardian newspaper.
—Frank Andrews, CBS News, 12 May 2026
San Jose city staffers are slated to make a final decision before the end of May regarding a ministerial permit that would be the final step in the municipal approval process, according to a city planner’s email to this news organization.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026
In each of the 11 countries, a national agency or dedicated ministerial department was set up to implement and track the project, with a coordinating entity, the Pan-African Great Green Wall Agency, based in Mauritania.
—Julie Bourdin, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026
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Sam Knight, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
On Monday, six lower-ranking ministerial aides quit, and several senior members of Starmer's governing cabinet urged him to set out a plan for his resignation and to hold a party leadership contest, according to The Guardian newspaper.
—Frank Andrews, CBS News, 12 May 2026
San Jose city staffers are slated to make a final decision before the end of May regarding a ministerial permit that would be the final step in the municipal approval process, according to a city planner’s email to this news organization.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026
In each of the 11 countries, a national agency or dedicated ministerial department was set up to implement and track the project, with a coordinating entity, the Pan-African Great Green Wall Agency, based in Mauritania.
—Julie Bourdin, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ministerial
pastoral
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Visitors might arrive by crossing the central plaza; emerging from the underground parking garage, nestled into a berm; or else wandering in from the surrounding Jackson Park, a network of pastoral paths completed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1871.—
Sam Cochran,
Architectural Digest,
4 June 2026
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In retrospect, this traumatic event gave us a luminous, decades-long solo career that moved seamlessly from oblique art-rock to sumptuous electronica, pastoral instrumentals, and soundtrack music.—
SPIN Staff,
SPIN,
1 June 2026
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“Ministerial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ministerial. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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