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Recent Examples of friar
According to Spanish Franciscan friar Diego de Landa Calderon – most famous for his zeal in destroying Maya codices – the Maya painted human beings before forcing them onto an altar and cutting out their beating hearts.
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Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 1 Dec. 2024
All the stops on this tour are locations administered by the Dominican friars.
—Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2024
The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a Catholic religious order of Franciscan friars, was founded in Italy.
—Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 8 Nov. 2024
Dreher, who was close with Vance at the time, introduced him to a group of Dominican friars in Washington.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 1 Dec. 2024
All the stops on this tour are locations administered by the Dominican friars.
—Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2024
The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a Catholic religious order of Franciscan friars, was founded in Italy.
—Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 8 Nov. 2024
Dreher, who was close with Vance at the time, introduced him to a group of Dominican friars in Washington.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for friar
Noun
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Every morning, the monks gathered there, arranging themselves on the long stone benches, to discuss the matters of the day.—
Amanda Petrusich,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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Unlike a synod of bishops, this will be a unique gathering of bishops, clergy, monks, friars, nuns and lay men and women.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN,
15 Mar. 2025
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In Thank You for Your Servitude, which for my money is the only truly interesting book about the Trump presidency, author Mark Leibovich goes into harrowing detail about how the modern GOP readily turned itself into a gaggle of mendicants to serve Trump on bended knee.—
Jason Linkins,
The New Republic,
29 Apr. 2023
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All these words strike me as vaguely offensive except for mendicant and supplicant.—
Stephen Miller,
WSJ,
11 Oct. 2021
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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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Buddhist organizations, whose members are also known to skew older, have been trying to connect with younger people by updating the image of monastics, usually known for their no-nonsense asceticism.—
Koh Ewe,
TIME,
13 May 2024
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Over the past 2,000 years, Buddhist teachings have encountered distortions and alterations due to mistranslation and misinterpretation of Buddha-dharma by Buddhist patriarchs, eminent monastics, and Buddhist scholars.—
Jon Stojan,
USA TODAY,
25 July 2023
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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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King Sverre of Norway personally provided information to the writer, Icelandic abbot Karl Jónsson, and instructed him on the details of the saga, Brink added.—
Hannah Peart,
NBC News,
28 Oct. 2024
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The abbot told him to begin every morning by performing exactly 108 bows, a meditation exercise in Korean Buddhism.—
Max Kim,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2024
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Unlike a synod of bishops, this will be a unique gathering of bishops, clergy, monks, friars, nuns and lay men and women.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN,
15 Mar. 2025
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The Vatican office for the synod, or gathering of bishops, released a timetable through 2028 to implement the reforms and said Francis had approved the calendar last week.—
Colleen Barry,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Mar. 2025
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“Friar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/friar. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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