vicar

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Recent Examples of vicar He was then made vicar general of the archdiocese in 2015 by the Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich. Connor Greene, Time, 18 Dec. 2025 Essie, the vicar’s wife in Chloe Marr, cannot believe that the beautiful and glamorous Chloe was ever happy. Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025 While Will is feverishly negotiating with a powerful vicar who wants to censor Love’s Labor’s Lost, he is devastated by the 1596 loss of his son to the plague. Peter Bart, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2025 Upon arrival, John is quickly befriended by his charming, confident next-door neighbor Tommy (Bremner), a devoted husband to the local vicar Rebecca (Myles). Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for vicar
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The show follows Nicky (Levy) and Morgan Dardano (Taylor Ortega), a pastor-and-teacher sibling duo from New Jersey who stumble into organized crime after Morgan steals a necklace from a postal store to bury with their dying grandmother.
    Kennedy French, Variety, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Cortes Vasquez is a pastor at The Gathering Place Church in Elizabeth.
    Naomi Ruchim, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The clergyman warns that failure to do so would jeopardize the future of Iran as well as the stability of the entire Middle East, unleashing an even more volatile and repressive regime in the war’s wake.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The clergyman warned, however, that failure to do so would jeopardize the future of Iran and the stability of the entire Middle East, unleashing an even more volatile and repressive Tehran government in the war’s wake.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Not all birth rituals depended on the intercession of a saint or the authority of a churchman.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the future pope was a bishop in Peru.
    Bill Barrow, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Missionary pope Leo’s Africa trip will see him outside of the Vatican for the longest time since his election, and the constant travel in the country has echoes of his time as a missionary and bishop in Latin America.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers.
    Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 18 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • The occurrences grew more aggressive over time, with the Smurls' 75-pound German shepherd getting slammed into a wall and Jack getting attacked while praying.
    Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Karyn Cordner’s Raven, a five-year-old black German shepherd with a soft coat of fur, was being trained to become a guide dog by the Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation in Bloomfield when the Simsbury resident first met her.
    Mikayla Bunnell, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2026

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“Vicar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vicar. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.

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