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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
In the vicarage garden, the Biddles found a shallow mound with the bones of 264 bodies.
—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
Isotope dating studies of the bodies in the vicarage charnel mound found wide disparities.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
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
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
In the vicarage garden, the Biddles found a shallow mound with the bones of 264 bodies.
—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
Isotope dating studies of the bodies in the vicarage charnel mound found wide disparities.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
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
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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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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Today’s vacant lot or rectory or even empty place of prayer could be tomorrow’s homes for so many people of all faiths — and, in the process, churches struggling to balance their books could get new sources of revenue.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
10 May 2025
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When Anne was just three months old, Patrick was appointed the reverend of a nearby church, and the family moved to the Haworth parsonage.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 May 2025
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In July 2020, WED Inc. filed a bankruptcy petition, which claimed its assets included 11 churches, a parsonage and Powell’s residence, prosecutors said.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
24 Apr. 2025
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In a 17th-century English country manse, AD100 designer Joy Moyler paired a vintage leather Chesterfield two-seater and armchair with a custom floral sectional sofa, while the Chesterfield sofa in AD contributing editor Amanda Brooks’s Cotswolds home turns on the charm with a Robert Kime stripe.—
Anna Elise Anderson,
Architectural Digest,
17 June 2025
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That process wasn’t followed through by city staff and the manse was destroyed.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
16 June 2025
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He was located and arrested in a residence in New Orleans on Friday evening, according to the Louisiana State Police.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
27 June 2025
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Even after getting into the home, completing a full and thorough search of the residence was nearly impossible.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
27 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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The life that Iyer brings to the hermitage has troubles, too.—
Danny Heitman,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Jan. 2025
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Retail Value: Historical Performance And Current Trends The retail value of an investment property is the price a household pays when buying a dwelling.—
Thibault Adrien,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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The original intent was to allow only one ADU, which is short for accessory dwelling unit.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
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The old-money van Rhijn’s abode is downright homely by comparison.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
17 June 2025
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Local architect William Cunningham completed the six-bedroom abode in 2023 for cardiologist Gerald Dorros.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
16 June 2025
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All a player needs to change her nationality for tennis is a valid passport or other proof of nationality, citizenship, domicile or residence.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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People love making the beach their domicile, exhibiting the very intimate social behavior normally reserved for one’s own four walls.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 May 2025
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“Vicarage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vicarage. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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