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Recent Examples of padre
The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in the wind.
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Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025
The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers.
—Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 18 Apr. 2024
The other 20-game losers in that span: Brian Kingman, 1980 A’s: 20
Phil Niekro, 1979 Braves: 20
Jerry Koosman, 1977 Mets: 20
Phil Niekro, 1977 Braves: 20
Wilbur Wood, 1975 White Sox: 20
Bill Bonham, 1974 Cubs: 22
Randy Jones, 1974 Padres:
—Ryan Ford Detroit Free Press, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2017
Game 84: Indians (44-39) vs. Padres (38-44) First pitch: 7:10 p.m.
—Joe Noga, cleveland.com, 6 July 2017
KEY WEST: Padres (1969); Sun Caps (1971), Conchs (1952, 1972-74), Cubs (1975).
—George Richards, miamiherald, 5 July 2017
Padres outfielder Franchy Cordero, 29.6 feet per second
5.
—Rustin Dodd
and Pete Grathoff, kansascity.com, 27 June 2017
Padres outfielder Franchy Cordero, 29.6 feet per second 5.
—Rustin Dodd
and Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 27 June 2017
Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025
The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers.
—Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 18 Apr. 2024
The other 20-game losers in that span: Brian Kingman, 1980 A’s: 20
Phil Niekro, 1979 Braves: 20
Jerry Koosman, 1977 Mets: 20
Phil Niekro, 1977 Braves: 20
Wilbur Wood, 1975 White Sox: 20
Bill Bonham, 1974 Cubs: 22
Randy Jones, 1974 Padres:
—Ryan Ford Detroit Free Press, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2017
Game 84: Indians (44-39) vs. Padres (38-44) First pitch: 7:10 p.m.
—Joe Noga, cleveland.com, 6 July 2017
KEY WEST: Padres (1969); Sun Caps (1971), Conchs (1952, 1972-74), Cubs (1975).
—George Richards, miamiherald, 5 July 2017
Padres outfielder Franchy Cordero, 29.6 feet per second
5.
—Rustin Dodd
and Pete Grathoff, kansascity.com, 27 June 2017
Padres outfielder Franchy Cordero, 29.6 feet per second 5.
—Rustin Dodd
and Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 27 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for padre
Noun
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He was assigned to Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Overland Park from 2009 to 2015, and in his early years as a priest was at three churches in Osage County.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
10 June 2026
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Coyote is an author, Zen Buddhist priest, and the voice of 12 Ken Burns documentaries.—
Time,
Time,
10 June 2026
Noun
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The trio of vicars starts with James Norton as Sidney Chambers, the doe-eyed clergyman with a taste for cool jazz and clever women.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
14 June 2026
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From the altar, the priest—whom a fellow clergyman introduced as being el Ĉinio, or from China—delivered the readings, blessed the Eucharist, and invited us to interŝanĝi the sign of the paco.—
Katie Thornton,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
Noun
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Not all birth rituals depended on the intercession of a saint or the authority of a churchman.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Chamberlain, the reverend from the South Side of Chicago, tells TIME many of her colleagues in different congregations have been providing physical refuge every day for members of the migrant community who fear prosecution from ICE.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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Crashing into Grattan’s church as the reverend delivers a pseudoscientific sermon about a looming apocalypse, Rafferty gives Grattan his own taste of what the end of the world might look like by choking him with an eel.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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He was originally cast as Paul Sunday, a character who appears at the beginning of the film and never returns, but was also cast as Paul's brother, preacher Eli Sunday, after Kel O'Neill exited that role two weeks into production.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Dec. 2025
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Lower courts ruled against street preacher A federal district judge threw out the suit.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
3 Dec. 2025
Noun
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My dad is a deacon in the Catholic Church.—
Hanna Rosin,
The Atlantic,
11 June 2026
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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.—
Torie Bosch,
STAT,
6 June 2026
Noun
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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.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 June 2026
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In northern Bavaria sits Bamberg, a charming place with a beer story that dates to a medieval cleric who ordered townsfolk be given a free brew on the day of his death.—
David Dickstein,
Oc Register,
10 June 2026
Noun
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His father then held the seat from 2003 until 2011.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
11 June 2026
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Similarly compelling is ‘Home Going,’ in which Clemmons traces her father’s family’s migration to Los Angeles in the 1970s, motivated by the promise of economic opportunities that had previously seemed out of reach for Black people.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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“Padre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/padre. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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