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Recent Examples of monk
And not only would a medieval monk in the 13th century respond differently from a Hittite warrior from 2,500 years earlier, but even within a single city, people with different jobs, social roles or ways of thinking might answer differently.
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Ky Merkley,
The Conversation,
15 June 2026
Ashore, kids might enjoy fruit tastings, watch dragon dance or Apsara performances, visit a silk-weaving village, meet local schoolchildren, or receive a monk's blessing.
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Ashlea Halpern,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 June 2026
The great Derek Jacobi plays the titular 12th century monk who was once a soldier of the Crusades.
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Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
The Cammino di San Nilo is an ancient eight-day trail through Cilento National Park, following the footsteps of Saint Nilo of Rossano, a Greco-Italian monk from the 11th century.
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Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2026
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Ky Merkley,
The Conversation,
15 June 2026
Ashore, kids might enjoy fruit tastings, watch dragon dance or Apsara performances, visit a silk-weaving village, meet local schoolchildren, or receive a monk's blessing.
—
Ashlea Halpern,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 June 2026
The great Derek Jacobi plays the titular 12th century monk who was once a soldier of the Crusades.
—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
The Cammino di San Nilo is an ancient eight-day trail through Cilento National Park, following the footsteps of Saint Nilo of Rossano, a Greco-Italian monk from the 11th century.
—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monk
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Fra Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, who was a medieval Italian Franciscan friar and explorer in 1244 went to Mongolia [as a papal ambassador].
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The storied residence was first commissioned in 1712 by Anna Gravina, Princess of Gravina and Valguarnera, and it's also attributed to Dominican friar and architect Tommaso Maria Napoli.
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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.
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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.
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The court found that Shi used his positions, including as the temple abbot, to illegally embezzle more than $19 million alone or in conspiracy with others, between 2003 and 2025, CCTV reported.
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According to a relative of Nathan who provided some of the sources Amit studied, the abbot reportedly also wrote letters to the Vatican and to monasteries in Switzerland pleading for a safe exit for Wolfgang.
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Throughout much of Buddhist history, and particularly in Theravada Buddhist contexts, mindfulness and its associated meditation methods have been the purview of mendicants (monks and nuns), who used mindfulness meditation to achieve trance states (jhana) leading to nirvana.
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An internationally famous leader who lived a mendicant’s life.
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Revolutionary Guard members and clerics mourn on the esplanade of the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla mosque.
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Funeral ceremonies are expected to begin in Tehran and move to Qom, a stronghold of many senior Shiite clerics, then to Mashhad, Khamenei's birthplace.
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The dynamic duo of Jonda Valentine, an artist and daughter of a Pentecostal preacher, and her longtime friend Christa Suppan, who started as a bartender when Lipstick first opened, share co-ownership of the two bars.
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The street preacher asks if someone could be cited if a transgender person is offended if they are misgendered by another person.
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The ritual confers the Holy Spirit from one bishop to another and recalls Christ’s gesture to his apostles.
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Under the church’s in-house canon law, consecrating a bishop without papal consent incurs an automatic excommunication for both the people administering the consecration and the bishops receiving it.
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The research in the Diocese of Saginaw reviewed allegations against 37 priests and one deacon, 30 of whom are known or presumed to be dead.
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When there’s a big medical bill, the deacon, or maybe some sort of committee, a small committee within the church, try to pull some funds together to pay for it.
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“Monk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monk. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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