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Recent Examples of monk
The venerable monk was draped in his maroon and saffron robe, his bare feet looking ashen with dust, a few of his toes still blackened from his arduous walk.
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Sarah Hepola, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026
The Zen Buddhist monk and personal hero of mine Thich Nhat Hanh spent much of his life writing about mindfulness.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
All the while, Shaw keeps the unhurried pace of someone willing to let the universe unfurl, like a monk in walking meditation.
—Linnie Greene, Pitchfork, 17 Feb. 2026
Officially dubbed the Air Max Goadome Cowboy Boot, the black leather shoe has double monk strap embossed with Public School branding wrapping across the tongue.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 13 Feb. 2026
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Sarah Hepola, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026
The Zen Buddhist monk and personal hero of mine Thich Nhat Hanh spent much of his life writing about mindfulness.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
All the while, Shaw keeps the unhurried pace of someone willing to let the universe unfurl, like a monk in walking meditation.
—Linnie Greene, Pitchfork, 17 Feb. 2026
Officially dubbed the Air Max Goadome Cowboy Boot, the black leather shoe has double monk strap embossed with Public School branding wrapping across the tongue.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 13 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monk
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Its authors tell in previously unheard detail how Cardinal Robert Prevost, a low-key Augustinian friar from Chicago, had quietly garnered support from fellow cardinals as the conclave got underway but remained under the radar of wider attention as a serious candidate.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
1 Mar. 2026
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The display marks a long saga over the friar’s remains and honors the 800th anniversary of his death.—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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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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Phommasan, abbot of a temple in Snellville, Georgia, rejoined the monks near Washington and entered American University's arena in a wheelchair.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The most recent abbot, Father Charles Albanese, will be splitting time between Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey in Oregon and Santa Rita Abbey in Arizona.—
John Mossman,
Denver Post,
18 Jan. 2026
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But those states also have Republican governors, who would have raised holy hell if their constituents had been menaced by these roving mobs of mendicants.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
28 Nov. 2025
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His eyes alternated between the mendicant and Bob.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Nov. 2025
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Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was selected to become Iran's supreme leader last weekend by the country's council of religious clerics after serving as a close aide to his father for years.—
Jennifer Jacobs,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2026
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But the Iranian system of clerics and militants defied the president, selecting in Khamenei’s son a man viewed as even more hostile to the West than his father was.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Mar. 2026
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Gabriel Olivier, an evangelical preacher, was arrested in May 2021 by police in Brandon, Mississippi, for protesting outside of a city amphitheater with a group.—
Julian Mark,
Washington Post,
20 Mar. 2026
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City said preacher had other options The lawyer for the city of Brandon noted that Olivier had other ways of taking on the restrictions, including challenging them as a violation of the state constitution’s free speech protections.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
20 Mar. 2026
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From Michael O’Connor, born in County Cork and named the first bishop in 1843, to subsequent bishops, clergy and sisters – primarily the Sisters of Mercy, who founded Mercy Hospital in 1847 – Irish roots ran deep in the church.—
Paula Kane,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2026
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The bishop indicated that was given to the needy.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
10 Mar. 2026
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His comfortable life as a deacon’s son was disrupted at the age of 16 when he was captured and enslaved by Irish raiders, spending the next years as a shepherd on a remote, often freezing hillside.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
17 Mar. 2026
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Two thousand people are expected to attend, including numerous religious figures such as bishops, priests and deacons.—
Alexa Herrera,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Monk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monk. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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