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Recent Examples of pastor
Eric Nelson, who’s a pastor, connected with Boise State head coach Spencer Danielson, who is vocal about his faith.
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Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
Proceeds from the dinner go to the church across the street, Las Olas Worship Center—the church across the street where Rodrigues’ husband, Elizeu, serves as pastor—and support its various missions around the world.
—Melissa Malamut, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2025
Darron Edwards, lead pastor of United Believers Community Church in south Kansas City, said no representative is equipped to protect and advance the interests of all residents in any one of the three new sprawling congressional districts that Kehoe’s map would divide Kansas City between.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
Controversial pastor David Jang's disciples are pursuing accreditation for a new college as the sect's flagship school, Olivet University—accused in lawsuits of racketeering and trafficking foreign students—faces the prospect of losing its degree-granting status.
—Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
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Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
Proceeds from the dinner go to the church across the street, Las Olas Worship Center—the church across the street where Rodrigues’ husband, Elizeu, serves as pastor—and support its various missions around the world.
—Melissa Malamut, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2025
Darron Edwards, lead pastor of United Believers Community Church in south Kansas City, said no representative is equipped to protect and advance the interests of all residents in any one of the three new sprawling congressional districts that Kehoe’s map would divide Kansas City between.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
Controversial pastor David Jang's disciples are pursuing accreditation for a new college as the sect's flagship school, Olivet University—accused in lawsuits of racketeering and trafficking foreign students—faces the prospect of losing its degree-granting status.
—Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastor
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Even the prolific scientist and inventor Benjamin Franklin, who would play a key role in both the American Revolution and the foundation of the new republic, took time out of a diplomatic trip to England to visit the intelligent rector.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Sep. 2025
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Believers from across the Chicago area came to visit the Pilgrim Mother, which was blessed by Monsignor Efraín Hernández Díaz, rector of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.—
Paulina Czupryna,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Aug. 2025
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Meanwhile, cousin Edmund, an aspiring clergyman, falls under the charms of Mary Crawford, written by Austen as a charming but immoral woman.—
Emily Zarevich,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Sep. 2025
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Blanc seeks to interview alongside another clergyman (O'Connor, 35).—
Tommy McArdle,
People.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Parochial vicar for a grouping known as Pastorate 22 or Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, which collectively includes two churches, St. Raphael and Good Shepherd, and one school, St. James, all in Madison, 2023 to present.—
Laura Schulte,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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The bakers were normal people: a shop worker, a vicar’s wife, a searingly competitive sixty-three-year-old Buddhist whose coup de grâce was a flock of choux-pastry cygnets.—
Ruby Tandoh,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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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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Returning to shepherd in the final phase for these beloved characters are Allen Leech, Laura Carmichael, Harry Hadden-Paton, Jim Carter, Penelope Wilton, Phyllis Logan, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Joanne Froggatt and Robert James-Collier.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Sep. 2025
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Most of the smashing is done by Tamburlaine, a Scythian shepherd by birth, who rises to the peaks of power, lays waste to one kingdom after another, and has the temerity, at the climax of Part 1, not to die.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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The bishop had no recollection of meeting Wilson’s husband.—
Sophia Tiedge,
jsonline.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The Christian city was a significant bishop's seat in the region during the Byzantine era.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Vesta curates vetted deals, structures co-investments, and builds brand and growth infrastructure to protect downside and boost upside.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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The app aggregates and curates options for watching live sports and is free to consumers.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Pastor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastor. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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