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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 Uttar Pradesh state, headed by Adityanath — a powerful Hindu monk and a popular hard-line Hindu politician in Modi’s party — has allocated more than $765 million for this year’s event.—
Sheikh Saaliq,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2025
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You’re meant to start along the edges and proceed clockwise, passing the pictures of monks, deities, or patrons in their neat squares.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
2 Jan. 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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The family later moved to Tulsa, Okla., where his father became a preacher and his mother, Joyce (Schott) Ray, managed the home.—
Clay Risen,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Bruer, 67, had served in at least 22 states and territories and seven countries since 1976, according to a timeline compiled by Pam Walton, a former member who has used historical records and photographs to track the movements of predatory preachers.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
16 Dec. 2024
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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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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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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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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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“Friar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/friar. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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