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Recent Examples of monk
Lott is still a priest but is no longer a monk at Delbarton, nor is he affiliated with the school.
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Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
That’s not a plea to live like a monk.
—Morgan Housel, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
One of the first key players introduced is Dairon, a shadowy monk known as an Expositor voiced in the series by Ming-Na Wen (Mulan; The Mandalorian).
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Guests can access the trail, meditate with the resident Buddhist monk, go whitewater rafting on the Mo Chhu river, and visit the picturesque Punakha Dzong, a centuries-old fortress.
—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025
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Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
That’s not a plea to live like a monk.
—Morgan Housel, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
One of the first key players introduced is Dairon, a shadowy monk known as an Expositor voiced in the series by Ming-Na Wen (Mulan; The Mandalorian).
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Guests can access the trail, meditate with the resident Buddhist monk, go whitewater rafting on the Mo Chhu river, and visit the picturesque Punakha Dzong, a centuries-old fortress.
—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monk
Noun
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Guido eventually became a Dominican friar, dedicating himself to making art within the mendicant order; after his death, in 1455, he became known as Fra Angelico, or the Angelic Friar.—
Louise Bokkenheuser,
Air Mail,
4 Oct. 2025
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When Las Casas first landed in Hispaniola (today divided by Haiti in the west and the Dominican Republic in the east), his head was already crowned with a friar’s tonsure.—
Greg Grandin
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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These people who see the theater as almost a monastic calling something of a higher order, and they’re brilliantly educated and funny.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Oct. 2025
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As the numbers of women at the highest echelons of learning continue to grow, women will likewise expand their ability to take leadership roles in their monastic and lay communities – helping to improve other nuns’ education and protecting Tibetan culture in the process.—
Darcie Price-Wallace,
The Conversation,
26 Sep. 2025
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Local spats could now feed into a mass movement that spread far beyond individual disputes between a peasant and a particularly nasty abbot or lord.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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By the 1930s the newly emerging field of genetics was growing in popularity, based primarily on the studies of the Austrian biologist and Catholic abbot Gregor Mendel.—
D. Scott Schmid,
Denver Post,
22 Sep. 2025
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On page 1,179, a mob of angry Haitian mendicants dissatisfied with their latest handouts chase some American workers into the motel parking lot, and then surround their cars.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
8 Oct. 2025
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Guido eventually became a Dominican friar, dedicating himself to making art within the mendicant order; after his death, in 1455, he became known as Fra Angelico, or the Angelic Friar.—
Louise Bokkenheuser,
Air Mail,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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For the monks or clerics, it is presented as a material substance, carried like a sack of gold on the demon’s back; the metaphors used are monetary or economic, as though the monks owe ordered syllables to God instead of the monetary tithe their vows of poverty render unnecessary.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
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Analysts point to how the restrictions have held, despite high-level pushback by other prominent clerics, and multiple attempts on the ground to sidestep the rules.—
NPR,
NPR,
14 Oct. 2025
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This came after director Ryan Coogler had asked her to work on his supernatural thriller, where Caton plays the son of a preacher.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
10 Nov. 2025
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Born in 1972, Heard, who identified as pansexual and polyamorous, served as a preacher prior to his career in adult content.—
Mikelle Street,
Them.,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The barely believable but entirely true story saw gay rights activists trick their way into the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, London by dressing plainly and conservatively – one even went as far as dressing as nun, while another donned the garbs of a bishop.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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What to Know Maloyan was an Armenian bishop and martyr who was killed during the Ottoman genocide in 1915.—
Jenni Fink,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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This novel is about an aging Brooklyn deacon shocks his community by shooting the local drug dealer in 1969.—
Kris Slugg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Nov. 2025
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In 1694, Jonathan Swift is ordained a deacon in the Church of Ireland.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Monk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monk. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.
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