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Recent Examples of clergyman
Now, Lubin works in marketing for a toy company and serves on the board of BOLD Justice, an advocacy group made up of local clergymen based in Broward.
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Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2024
Separately on Tuesday, Iran hanged Farhad Salimi, a Kurdish cleric who had spent 14 years behind bars over the killing of another clergyman, human rights groups reported.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024
The first hint of photosynthesis came from experiments by English clergyman and scientist Joseph Priestly.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
Among the clergymen cited in the lawsuits that were settled Wednesday, Father Michael Baker is one of the priests with the most victims.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
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Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2024
Separately on Tuesday, Iran hanged Farhad Salimi, a Kurdish cleric who had spent 14 years behind bars over the killing of another clergyman, human rights groups reported.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024
The first hint of photosynthesis came from experiments by English clergyman and scientist Joseph Priestly.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
Among the clergymen cited in the lawsuits that were settled Wednesday, Father Michael Baker is one of the priests with the most victims.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clergyman
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Society Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas Tara Isabella Burton A week with the street preachers of Sin City.hazlitt.net, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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Falwell, among other notable preachers, criticized Carter's interview with Playboy as an example of voicing impure thoughts.Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 29 Dec. 2024
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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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If the dominant Spaniards of The Betrothed are unjust, self-interested, and pompous, few of the Italians — including churchmen — are any better.David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
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Despite the fall, Francis held five meetings on Thursday according to the Vatican, including with Alvaro Lario, the President of the International Fund of Agricultural Development, and priests from an Argentine college based in Rome.Christopher Lamb, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
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Visitation for a retired priest of the Chicago Archdiocese who died last week will take place at Kurtz Memorial Chapel on Friday, according to the archdiocese.Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025
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Days before the election, church deacons voted to oust their pastor for finally supporting the admission of a Black worshiper.Bill Marsh, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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For instance, the Catholic Church doesn't permit a woman to be a priest or a deacon.Marianne Schnall, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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The reverends all have something poignant to say, and their sermons change by the minute.Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024
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Parents are heated after a reverend ruined the magic of Christmas for a group of children.Bailey Richards, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024
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Iranian clerics who were willing to work with the Shah were undermined.Letters to the Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
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People will decide to read things that would be deplored by literary critics or anti-smut campaigners or religious clerics or card-carrying rationalists.Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 10 Jan. 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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From political infighting among an international coterie of bishops, to nosy clerical gossiping, to Isabella Rossellini as a nun with ulterior motives, to car bombs, the movie — based on an airport novel of the same name by Robert Harris — is arguably overwrought and overstuffed, if endlessly fun.Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 12 Jan. 2025
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There were rabbis, imams, bishops and deacons from across the city, reflecting the diversity of the victims and New Orleans.Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Clergyman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clergyman. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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