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Recent Examples of vicarage
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.
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Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 Mar. 2024
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
Anyone in 1963 who still wanted fiction set in the vicarage, publishers thought, could go back to Jane Austen, the writer to whom Pym has ceaselessly, and often wrongly, been compared.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
In the vicarage garden, the bodies in the charnel mound have gone back to sleep.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
After a day in the saddle, riders will recharge at hotels with deep local roots, such as The Painswick, a converted 18th-century Palladian house that was once the town's vicarage.
—Jancee Dunn, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2022
Agatha Christie’s fictional hamlet – the home of amateur sleuth Jane Marple – has seen its unfair share of murders, including at the vicarage.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2020
Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 Mar. 2024
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
Anyone in 1963 who still wanted fiction set in the vicarage, publishers thought, could go back to Jane Austen, the writer to whom Pym has ceaselessly, and often wrongly, been compared.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
In the vicarage garden, the bodies in the charnel mound have gone back to sleep.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
After a day in the saddle, riders will recharge at hotels with deep local roots, such as The Painswick, a converted 18th-century Palladian house that was once the town's vicarage.
—Jancee Dunn, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2022
Agatha Christie’s fictional hamlet – the home of amateur sleuth Jane Marple – has seen its unfair share of murders, including at the vicarage.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vicarage
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In his rectory, Toller has donned and armed Michael’s explosive vest, then covered it with a black Genevan gown and white stole, preparing to sacrifice himself, the attendant luminaries, and First Reformed itself in an act of environmental protest.—
Roy Scranton
August 20,
Literary Hub,
20 Aug. 2025
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Lohan’s role in director Robert Rodriguez’s pulpy, violent action fantasy is very small — she's named April and spends much of the movie unconscious in a rectory.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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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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Despite reports surfacing before Sunday's game that the Giants had worked up a package of plays for Jaxson Dart, the rookie QB didn't see the field with New York playing from behind for three-and-a-half quarters.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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Baltimore ran off 17 unanswered points spanning the first and second quarters by leaning heavily on its running game.—
The Athletic NFL Staff,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Our newest discovery at Amazon, the Generic 2-Story Prefabricated Tiny Home, is a one-bedroom abode with a spacious floor plan, a roomy deck, and a front porch for just $17,700.—
Toni Sutton,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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The abode is deliberately sculptural, with sweeping curves that echo the contours of the surrounding cliffs and emulate the rhythm of the Mediterranean below.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Vicarage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vicarage. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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