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Recent Examples of rectory
Here, wife-and-husband gallerists JJ and Anthony Curis converted a 1911 Romanesque Revival church into a free arts space and performance venue with a Black arts library in the transept and a B&B in the former rectory.
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AFAR Media, 14 July 2025
His father, Louis, now a widower, stayed with him and the other Augustinians for more than a month in their rectory, cooking meals and participating in the fraternal life.
—Mitra Taj, New York Times, 17 May 2025
What To Know On April 3, first responders were called to the Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church rectory at 2:50 pm, following a report of gunshots.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
Deputies from the Nemaha County Sheriff’s Office responded to the shooting at the church’s rectory at 411 Pioneer Street about 2:55 p.m. Thursday and discovered Carasala outside with gunshot wounds, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a news release Thursday.
—Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2025
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AFAR Media, 14 July 2025
His father, Louis, now a widower, stayed with him and the other Augustinians for more than a month in their rectory, cooking meals and participating in the fraternal life.
—Mitra Taj, New York Times, 17 May 2025
What To Know On April 3, first responders were called to the Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church rectory at 2:50 pm, following a report of gunshots.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
Deputies from the Nemaha County Sheriff’s Office responded to the shooting at the church’s rectory at 411 Pioneer Street about 2:55 p.m. Thursday and discovered Carasala outside with gunshot wounds, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a news release Thursday.
—Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rectory
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Neighbors fear ‘screaming, shouting, and splashing’ The Sun first reported that Horner and Halliwell had sent off planning permission last year to build a 40ft x 16ft swimming pool at their vicarage house residence, which Horner bought for £2 million ($2.5 million) in 2006.—
Ryan Hogg,
Fortune Europe,
27 Mar. 2024
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As the anger beyond the vicarage rises, the tenor of the debates across the kitchen table grow more urgent.—
Gordon Cox,
Variety,
6 July 2022
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Now there are, of course, there's something called a parsonage exception where members of the clergy in the United States can exclude the value of their dwelling, but there's rules that go around with that.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Going into the clergy was a common choice for educated young men of middling means, and Malthus was able to secure a parsonage in Wotton, Surrey.—
Roy Scranton,
The Conversation,
22 Aug. 2025
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The bravura centerpiece is the two friends’ destructive brawl in a Hamptons manse, which explodes everything in sight, from an enormous aquarium to the second story window.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
15 Aug. 2025
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Chanceries are typically connected to an embassy or consulate, meaning several high-ranking officials from the United States and the Middle East have likely spent time in the manse.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
24 July 2025
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Standard mortgage documents commonly include an occupancy clause that requires the borrower to use the property as their principal residence for at least a year.—
Robert Faturechi,
ProPublica,
6 Sep. 2025
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My work spans high-performance corporate headquarters, luxury residences and culturally significant renovations.—
Nathanael Bondu,
Rolling Stone,
5 Sep. 2025
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The excavation began in February 2025, in anticipation of future housing development near a modern-day hermitage, according to a statement from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP).—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 June 2025
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The Abbey of Saint Gall, originally a hermitage south of Lake Constance, was founded by one of his companions, Saint Gall (or Gallus).—
Bernd Roeck
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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Thousands of years ago, the 52,000-plus acres now known as Mesa Verde National Park were home to the Ancestral Pueblo People, who built a series of sophisticated stone dwellings in the cliffs here.—
Cu Fleshman,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Sep. 2025
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The longhouse is a multifamily dwelling with communal areas.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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In the gambling business, the folks who generate the profits for the house are — not to put too fine a point on it — the losers.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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Features of the mansion and the other priciest metro Phoenix houses to sell in include a 20-car garage, billiards room, pool with a slide and leathered granite countertops.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Based on a stranger-than-fiction story, the drama stars Channing Tatum as a former Army Ranger who robs McDonald's eateries by entering through their roofs.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Rectory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rectory. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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