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Recent Examples of oblate
The new archbishop is an associate member [oblate] of Pluscarden Abbey, a Benedictine community in Scotland, and is known as an able administrator who took decisions to re-organize the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton.
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Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
19 Dec. 2025
Sister Lydia Maria described to the women the duties of an oblate, such as saying prayers for people who request them.
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Lawrence Wright,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
As a result, the Earth's normal oblate shape, resembling a somewhat flattened sphere bulging at the equator, is flattening even more, Adhikari said.
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Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
15 July 2024
In the north, Solomon knew, young oblates, the cherished daughters of gentlewomen, were given to the Lord out of the ranks of the nobility.
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Cynthia Ozick,
Harper’s Magazine ,
10 Apr. 2023
But Earth is an oblate spheroid, meaning a 3D shape created by an ellipsis that’s rotating around its shorter axis—like a more rounded jelly donut.
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Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
12 Feb. 2020
This was unexpected at Jupiter—a heavy, fast rotating, oblate (flattened at the poles) planet.
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Andrew Coates,
Newsweek,
8 Mar. 2018
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
19 Dec. 2025
Sister Lydia Maria described to the women the duties of an oblate, such as saying prayers for people who request them.
—
Lawrence Wright,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
As a result, the Earth's normal oblate shape, resembling a somewhat flattened sphere bulging at the equator, is flattening even more, Adhikari said.
—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
15 July 2024
In the north, Solomon knew, young oblates, the cherished daughters of gentlewomen, were given to the Lord out of the ranks of the nobility.
—
Cynthia Ozick,
Harper’s Magazine ,
10 Apr. 2023
But Earth is an oblate spheroid, meaning a 3D shape created by an ellipsis that’s rotating around its shorter axis—like a more rounded jelly donut.
—
Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
12 Feb. 2020
This was unexpected at Jupiter—a heavy, fast rotating, oblate (flattened at the poles) planet.
—
Andrew Coates,
Newsweek,
8 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oblate
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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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In the 18th century, an Italian monk, Father Antonio Piaggio, invented a device to gently unroll the carbonized papyrus.
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The cordovan line revisited the brand’s shoemaking heritage with models that included derby shoes, loafers, monk straps and Chelsea boots.
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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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Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.
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This shop for ecclesiastics has an exquisite selection of high-quality pieces.
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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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However, a reverend in Zambia — Billiance Chondwe — says he's noticed a change.
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Spirtual foundation Astara, where Guidera reportedly served as a reverend, paid tribute to the late actor in an emotional social media post over the weekend.
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The librarian, in turn, accused the preacher of book theft.
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Son of a Preacherman, Choi's latest work, is an autobiographical look at the writer's upbringing in a family of preachers.
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“Oblate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oblate. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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