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Recent Examples of monk
In another legend, the monk was said to have cut off his eyelids to avoid falling asleep during his meditation, one explanation for the doll’s wide-eyed stare.
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Rebecca Cairns, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
In the opening scene of the episode, the monk warns that there is no such thing as resolution.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
Now people see black horses with fiery eyes, monks high in the tree tops.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
While appearing on Live with Kelly and Mark on Monday, April 7, the 37-year-old podcast host and former Hindu monk discussed his most recent gig as a wedding officiant — because there's been more than one! — with Hudgens, 36, and Tucker, 28.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Rebecca Cairns, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
In the opening scene of the episode, the monk warns that there is no such thing as resolution.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
Now people see black horses with fiery eyes, monks high in the tree tops.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
While appearing on Live with Kelly and Mark on Monday, April 7, the 37-year-old podcast host and former Hindu monk discussed his most recent gig as a wedding officiant — because there's been more than one! — with Hudgens, 36, and Tucker, 28.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monk
Noun
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Francis sought to follow his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century Italian friar renowned for poverty, peace, and care of creation.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2025
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Image Fra Angelico, the Renaissance artist and Dominican friar who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1982, may be the best known.—
Elisabetta Povoledo,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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While the Thai Buddhism depicted in The White Lotus is not completely realistic, there are several authentic ways to engage deeply with Buddhism, ranging from offering donations to short meditation retreats to ordination as a monastic.—
Brooke Schedneck,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2025
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While the Thai Buddhism depicted in The White Lotus is not completely realistic, there are several authentic ways to engage deeply with Buddhism, ranging from offering donations to short meditation retreats to ordination as a monastic.—
Brooke Schedneck,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2025
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As the village abbot never far from the woods, or from Martine’s little dining room table, Jacques Develay manages the trick of utter simplicity in his motives and line readings.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2025
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When Kaldi shared the berries with an abbot of a local monastery, the monk ended up wide awake during the evening prayers.—
Marta Zaraska,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2025
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In Thank You for Your Servitude, which for my money is the only truly interesting book about the Trump presidency, author Mark Leibovich goes into harrowing detail about how the modern GOP readily turned itself into a gaggle of mendicants to serve Trump on bended knee.—
Jason Linkins,
The New Republic,
29 Apr. 2023
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All these words strike me as vaguely offensive except for mendicant and supplicant.—
Stephen Miller,
WSJ,
11 Oct. 2021
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Pope Francis bucked that tradition when he was elected, instead choosing his name to honor St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th century cleric now celebrated in the church as the patron saint of animals and the environment.—
Christopher Watson,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2025
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Riyadh severed ties with Tehran in 2016 after Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in the Iranian capital following the execution of a Shiite cleric in Saudi Arabia.—
Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN Money,
17 Apr. 2025
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But while the Gemstones themselves have embraced Kelvin and his coming out, the rest of the world — particularly rival preacher Vance Simkins (Stephen Dorff), Kelvin’s competition for the ridiculous title of Top Christ-Following Man — is more critical.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
21 Apr. 2025
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Preacher Boy shows off his heavenly voice and affinity for jazz music, but his father, an actual preacher, rebukes the genre as the devil’s music, like most good Christians did back then.—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
Refinery29,
18 Apr. 2025
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Prior to his papacy, bishops and cardinals typically submitted their resignations at 75.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
23 Apr. 2025
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By 2024, lay and religious women participated and voted in key synodal sessions previously exclusively reserved for bishops and cardinals.—
Gemma Allen,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Dixon, an administrator with the Kane County Sheriff’s Office and a deacon at Second Baptist Church, is seeking a third term.—
Courier-News,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Apr. 2025
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Peter & Paul parishioners say are flatly false, including an unfounded claim that the deacon has a criminal record and was once sentenced to 30 days in jail.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Monk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monk. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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