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Recent Examples of rectory
Police have nabbed a conman who posed as a visiting priest and burglarized a Queens rectory.
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Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 19 July 2024
Hotel Peter & Paul, in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, plays up the building's history as a Catholic church, schoolhouse, rectory, and convent, referencing saints and sinners.
—Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2024
The welcoming priest invited him into the rectory, where Malin stole $900 from the cleric’s bedroom, cops said.
—Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 19 July 2024
In addition to her work on behalf of social justice outreach, the Rev. Stanley oversaw the restoration of the church’s Saratoga Street rectory.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2024
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Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 19 July 2024
Hotel Peter & Paul, in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, plays up the building's history as a Catholic church, schoolhouse, rectory, and convent, referencing saints and sinners.
—Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2024
The welcoming priest invited him into the rectory, where Malin stole $900 from the cleric’s bedroom, cops said.
—Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 19 July 2024
In addition to her work on behalf of social justice outreach, the Rev. Stanley oversaw the restoration of the church’s Saratoga Street rectory.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rectory
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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.Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 Mar. 2024
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In the vicarage garden, the Biddles found a shallow mound with the bones of 264 bodies.Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
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When Johnson retired, Seay-Hubbard purchased the home and converted it into a parsonage of the church until clergy no longer wanted to reside there.Jennifer Lindahl, The Tennessean, 10 Nov. 2024
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The church building and parsonage, both owned by the National Park Service, are part of the national historical park along with Tubman’s former brick home, a visitor center, an administrative building, and the reconstructed Home for the Aged and Indigent Negroes, which are privately owned.Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2024
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About this other woman with all these identifying details—who finds her father hanging in the garage of the family manse—in Falcon’s Flight.Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
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Other amenities in Ye’s manse include a resort-style waterfall pool, along with another pool for swimming laps, a pool house, and a luxe gazebo.India Roby, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2024
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After the funeral service, the late president’s body and his family traveled once more by motorcade to the Carter residence, passing many still gathered in the streets despite the cold weather to say farewell.Shirleen Guerra | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Jan. 2025
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The four-acre Red Mountain residence was previously owned by a fellow billionaire, Thomas Peterffy, and sports 11 bedrooms and 15 bathrooms.Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2025
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An excavation in Lincolnshire revealed what appears to be a sacred site Archaeologists digging through a field in Lincolnshire, England, may have found a 1,300-year-old hermitage on the site of a much more ancient henge.Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
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The hermitage was his summer hideaway, a place for monthslong vacations with family and friends.Aimee Farrell, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
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The massacre took place at a rural property where more than 20 people lived in makeshift dwellings.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
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There is evidence of Iron Age dwelling in the south and a Roman Villa in the north.David Nikel, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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Stories of residents choosing to defend their homes from the flames by themselves — such as the 66-year-old man who died trying to keep his house from being burned by the Eaton fire with a garden hose — have also garnered national media attention.Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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Montgomery said contractors had also left rat poison strapped to a wooden beam under the house.Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 13 Jan. 2025
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The city beefed up security then as well, with officers, including snipers, on the tops of surrounding high-rise buildings, as well as on the roof of the dome.Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 2 Jan. 2025
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In the photos, the couple can be seen on the roof of a tall building in front of a colorful flower arch featuring roses, sunflowers, and greenery.Tabitha Parent, People.com, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Rectory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rectory. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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