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
  • In addition to Trump’s inauguration pastor, conservative stakeholders have encouraged companies to invest in bitcoin.
    Bracey Harris, NBC news, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Hardy, who now works in digital marketing in Southern California, was raised in a religious family where the natural trajectory to become a pastor was to attend a school like Hyles-Anderson.
    Olivia Empson, Vanity Fair, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • 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
  • The bishop indicated that was given to the needy.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 10 Mar. 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
  • Looking ahead at the remainder of their co-presidency this year, the biggest goal for both Sportelli and Cuthell is to continue working as a shepherd for those who want to get involved.
    Madison Beveridge, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The seven dogs in question have since returned home, with the German shepherd now restrained on a leash until its heat cycle ends.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026

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“Vicar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vicar. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.

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