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Recent Examples of chaplain
In Lucas Hnath’s play Dana H. the central character, Dana Higginbotham, a psych ward chaplain, recounts the devastating ordeal of being kidnapped by one of her patients for five months.
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Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Dammers was born in 1955 in Tamil Nadu, where his father, Horace, served as a chaplain at a missionary school.
—Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Rahman, a criminal justice professor at the Community College of Philadelphia, formerly worked for the city's Department of Prisons and the Sheriff's Office, and is a Philly police chaplain.
—Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 7 Mar. 2025
Listen to this article An NYPD chaplain had an unholy hookup, according to police.
—Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2025
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Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Dammers was born in 1955 in Tamil Nadu, where his father, Horace, served as a chaplain at a missionary school.
—Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Rahman, a criminal justice professor at the Community College of Philadelphia, formerly worked for the city's Department of Prisons and the Sheriff's Office, and is a Philly police chaplain.
—Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 7 Mar. 2025
Listen to this article An NYPD chaplain had an unholy hookup, according to police.
—Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaplain
Noun
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Its pastor rejoiced Have the flu or know someone with it?—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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Among the friends and musicians tagged in the clip were singer-songwriter Jensen McRae, pastor Judah Smith, Josh Mehl, DJ Taylor James, producer Camper, and others.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Specifically, the nuns pointed a finger at Urbain Grandier—a local priest and their confessor.—
Amelia Soth,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2024
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Its main purpose is not the creation of aesthetic beauty out of the materials at hand (life, pain) but selfishness: relieving the confessor’s desire to confess.—
Lauren Oyler,
The New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2024
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Mayall was also a rector for Holy Name Cathedral beginning in January 2002.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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There will be an Anglican funeral service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Va at 11:00 am on December 21, 2024, officiated by her pastor, The Rev. Jonathan Kell, rector of Church of Our Saviour, Oatlands.—
Fox News Staff,
Fox News,
14 Dec. 2024
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The faithful from Francis’ homeland, meanwhile, gathered in the Argentine church of Rome for a special Mass presided over by Cardinal Baldassarre Reina, the pope’s vicar for Rome.—
Silvia Stellacci,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
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Currently the parochial vicar at St. Lucy Parish in Campbell, Rev. Pedigo formerly served as pastor at St. Julie Billiart and Our Lady of Guadalupe in San Jose.—
Sal Pizarro,
The Mercury News,
8 Mar. 2025
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Writing in the eighteenth century, Smith compared energetic and often sensationalist Methodist preachers with the more reserved and cerebral parsons of the Church of England.—
Shadi Hamid,
Foreign Affairs,
18 June 2024
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The other is her violent stepfather, who, in this version, is also the church’s parson (Steven Pasquale).—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2024
Noun
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All are welcome to join the prayer time every first Monday of the month to lift up missionaries in prayer.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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Religion gameplay needs attention, as there’s no way to stop other leaders’ missionaries, leading to unsatisfying back-and-forth conversion gameplay.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
13 Mar. 2025
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Some clutched rosaries, others took selfies or touched the protective glass in front of the seemingly sleeping young man, who died of leukemia at 15 in 2006 and is generating a devotion that astonishes even Assisi’s bishop.—
Time,
Time,
27 Mar. 2025
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Last month, days before his hospitalization, Pope Francis penned a letter to U.S. bishops that criticized the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans.—
Jonathan Bullington,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC News,
17 June 2022
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Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.—
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1 Dec. 2020
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“Chaplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaplain. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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