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Recent Examples of clergyman
Among the key moments, as revealed in the Saints’ own emails:
— Saints executives were so involved in the church’s damage control that a team spokesman briefed his boss on a 2018 call with the city’s top prosecutor hours before the church released a list of clergymen accused of abuse.
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Brett Martel, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
The brutality shocked a nation previously unused to this level of violence, especially as those responsible were Shiite clergymen, men of God.
—Kasra Naji, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2016
Ralph Fiennes plays Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, a British clergyman who is the dean of the College of Cardinals at the Vatican.
—Armond White, National Review, 19 Feb. 2025
The occasion marked the halfway point between the winter and spring equinoxes, with clergymen blessing used candles and handing them out to locals every February 2.
—Rachel Dobkin, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
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Brett Martel, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
The brutality shocked a nation previously unused to this level of violence, especially as those responsible were Shiite clergymen, men of God.
—Kasra Naji, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2016
Ralph Fiennes plays Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, a British clergyman who is the dean of the College of Cardinals at the Vatican.
—Armond White, National Review, 19 Feb. 2025
The occasion marked the halfway point between the winter and spring equinoxes, with clergymen blessing used candles and handing them out to locals every February 2.
—Rachel Dobkin, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clergyman
Noun
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To the congregation, Rose had been much more than a charismatic preacher.—
Guthrie Scrimgeour,
Rolling Stone,
16 Mar. 2025
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Blige also connected jazz (scat singing, riffing on a phrase, improvising wordless lines), gospel (testifying akin to a preacher delivering a sermon) and hip hop traditions.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
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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
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Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Aug. 2024
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The Vatican said the photo was taken Sunday when the pope celebrated Mass with other priests in the chapel.—
Joshua McElwee,
USA TODAY,
16 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, cries for help emerged on social media for a group of priests trapped inside a church in the Carrefour-Feuilles neighborhood, which endured much of the attack by the Viv Ansanm gang coalition that began late Tuesday.—
Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
arkansasonline.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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Reforms on the table include how to give greater roles to women in the Catholic Church, including ordaining them as deacons, and the greater inclusion of laity in governance and decision making.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN,
15 Mar. 2025
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Image Ukrainian officials have asserted that Russia maintains a wide network of sleeper agents, and have variously accused a nurse, a church deacon, a high-ranking official in Ukraine’s intelligence agency.—
Kim Barker,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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As a reverend leading a congregation, my work doesn’t end with a sermon.—
Kevin English,
Baltimore Sun,
6 Mar. 2025
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The reverend at the National Cathedral prayer service for the inauguration called on President Trump to have mercy on transgender children and immigrant families in her sermon Tuesday.—
Alex Gangitano,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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Hardline Muslim clerics and their religious police have been sidelined.—
Ned Temko,
The Christian Science Monitor,
13 Mar. 2025
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He was elected leader of the armed group in 1992 as a 32-year-old cleric.—
CNN Staff,
CNN,
23 Feb. 2025
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The end result was a new brand of ecclesiastics and lay Catholics who felt comfortable detaching themselves from Franco’s regime, or even fighting it head-on in a variety of forums, including student movements, intellectual circles, unions, political parties, and the media.—
Victor Pérez-Díaz,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Dec. 2013
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Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.—
Peter Brown,
The New York Review of Books,
24 Sep. 2020
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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
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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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“Clergyman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clergyman. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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