vicar

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Recent Examples of vicar 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 Muir serves as the vicar general of the diocese and is pastor of St. Mary's Basilica, located close to 200 E. Van Buren St., where The Republic had operated since 1995. Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 19 Nov. 2025 Aquila served as a parochial vicar in two parishes from 1976 to 1982 and then as pastor at Denver’s Guardian Angels Parish from 1982 to 1987. Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 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
  • As for the rector’s other housemates – a pair of scene-stealing dachshunds – Lewis is happily resigned to being upstaged.
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
  • More than two dozen UVA Health leaders signed a letter to the university's rector and interim president, asking them to give Rosner the permanent position, the organization said in a news release.
    Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Scott Venable, lead pastor of Northwood Church in Keller, said the city has never been at risk of being governed by sharia or any other foreign laws.
    Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Jan. 2026
  • This intrepid empire builder is married to the pastor, and not here to make friends.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • So Harald Schiffl now speaks on the clergyman's behalf.
    Esme Nicholson, NPR, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Hopkins' performance is wide-ranging, swinging the pendulum from an eccentric clergyman to a man overcome by darkness.
    Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Kent State was reduced to a single photo because the press was far more centralized at the time, and had the power and the influence to edit, curate, and promote a particular version of an event.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The discussion will dive into how Shudder curates and champions cutting-edge horror content for its devoted fanbase.
    William Earl, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Prevost was becoming a bishop of consequence.
    Paul Elie, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The attack hit the Sokoto region of northwestern Nigeria, an area where a local Catholic bishop said in October that Christians aren't facing persecution.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2025
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

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“Vicar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vicar. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.

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