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Recent Examples of friar
All the stops on this tour are locations administered by the Dominican friars.
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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
In recent years, Joe cooked for the friars at St. Francis and at 1883 Kitchen at Kroger, Downtown.
—Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2024
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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
In recent years, Joe cooked for the friars at St. Francis and at 1883 Kitchen at Kroger, Downtown.
—Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for friar
Noun
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The devil will persist in bothering Martin Luther until the bald-headed monk dispatches him by hurling a bottle of ink.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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The monks do as recommended, practicing loving-kindness meditation for several weeks.—
Jeremy David Engels,
The Conversation,
5 Feb. 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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In Parable of the Sower published in 1993, Butler depicted an apocalyptic future through the perspective of a preacher's daughter, Lauren Olamina.—
Jireh Deng,
NPR,
8 Feb. 2025
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Enough preachers have told him that over the years.—
Jeffrey Fleishman,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 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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President Trump said Tuesday the prayer service for his inauguration, when the reverend called on him to have mercy on transgender children and immigrant families, wasn’t too exciting.—
Alex Gangitano,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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The Pacific Palisades proper was founded in 1922 by Methodist reverend Charles H. Scott, who established a religious community there.—
Hadley Hall Meares,
Architectural Digest,
17 Jan. 2025
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Virtually overnight, the new gender apartheid state rolled back laws and opportunities that had for decades already lifted Iranian women up from the subservience clerics demanded.—
Mariam Memarsadeghi,
Newsweek,
13 Jan. 2025
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When the cohort last signed off, a concerned sorcerer had teleported an outmatched cleric right into a giant crocodile’s mouth.—
Meghan Herbst,
WIRED,
26 Nov. 2024
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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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Others, like the lecherous bishop (Peppe Lanzetta), seek to use her cerebral interests for a few quick sins of the flesh.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
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Which bishop best represented the biblical calls for serving the marginalized in our society, the fawning cardinal or the prophetic bishop?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Friar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/friar. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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