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Recent Examples of pastor
Meanwhile, Rae Huang — a pastor, an organizing leader, and a working mother — is treated as an afterthought.
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Caleb W Crowder, Daily News, 10 Mar. 2026
The Sound of Hope shares the true story of a pastor, WC Martin, and Donna Martin, and how their church community sparked change by adopting 77 kids from their community’s foster care system.
—Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 9 Mar. 2026
Johnson leads the North Hartford Public Safety Coalition and is pastor of Hope Urban Refuge Church.
—Mariana Navarrete Villegas, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
Chris Elliott, a pastor from Lexington, North Carolina, told ABC News that he and his family were stranded while visiting sites in Jerusalem.
—ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
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Caleb W Crowder, Daily News, 10 Mar. 2026
The Sound of Hope shares the true story of a pastor, WC Martin, and Donna Martin, and how their church community sparked change by adopting 77 kids from their community’s foster care system.
—Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 9 Mar. 2026
Johnson leads the North Hartford Public Safety Coalition and is pastor of Hope Urban Refuge Church.
—Mariana Navarrete Villegas, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
Chris Elliott, a pastor from Lexington, North Carolina, told ABC News that he and his family were stranded while visiting sites in Jerusalem.
—ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastor
Noun
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Instead, the words written in her autobiography served as the guide for the two-hour service filled with hymns and scriptures, as Christ Episcopal Church rector Father Jonathan Archer read a passage from the book which was published in 2000 during her memorial on Friday.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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At Sagrada Familia, a prayer verse is included at the base of the cross installed Friday afternoon, said church rector Turull.—
Suman Naishadham,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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The pompous clergyman enters the life of the Bennet family, his distant cousins, with the assumption that, given his respectable position and benefactor, Lady Catherine De Bourgh, one of those daughters would be happy to marry him.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
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Garage owner and keen early automobilist Henry Frederick Stanley Morgan, the son of a rural English clergyman, built his first car, an eponymous prototype, in 1909.—
Jamie Kitman,
Air Mail,
21 Feb. 2026
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The chapel vicar Cardinal Baldo Reina has issued a statement on the matter, but has not weighed in on whether the angel’s face is that of the prime minister.—
Barbie Latza Nadeau,
CNN Money,
3 Feb. 2026
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Fast forward two years, after a period of poor mental health following my injury, the realization of the vicar’s sentence really hit.—
Abigail Wise,
Outside,
3 Jan. 2026
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It was said that the room contained a troubled spirit and that the parson was supposed to bless the space.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Among the beetle-collecting country parsons of his day, it was often assumed that the world had been created six thousand years ago and that many geological anomalies could be explained by Noah’s Flood.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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In an area that used to produce influential Catholic churchmen the way the Dodgers churned out Rookies of the Year, Gomez has amounted to the living equivalent of a hair shirt: a mode of piety that serves no one but the wearer.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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Martini was a key figure in a group of churchmen who met annually in St. Gallen, Switzerland, to ponder how best to blunt John Paul and Ratzinger’s reactionary thrust.—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025
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Giammona started it to help shelter dogs after fostering Miles, a German shepherd who was set to be euthanized.—
Lauren Pozen,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
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Winter Annual Weeds Henbit, chickweed, and shepherd’s purse are common winter annual weeds.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
8 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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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.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacramento Bee,
18 Apr. 2024
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“Pastor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastor. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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