sky pilot

noun

Definition of sky pilotnext
as in chaplain

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  1. chaplain
  2. pastor
  3. rector
  4. confessor
  5. vicar
  6. curate
  7. parson
  8. shepherd
Noun
  • While the majority of chaplains are Christian, the program includes individuals of Jewish and Muslim faiths.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Last year, Texas allowed public schools to hire uncertified religious chaplains as counselors, and the legislature has pushed to require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
    Amanda Musa, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of chaplain
Noun
  • And not too long after that, the pastor said, a donor — a member of a Detroit family with a family foundation that seeks be anonymous — came to the church and offered a substantial amount, millions of dollars, to get the project started.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The pastors and elders were not having it, but youth organizations loved us and embraced us.
    Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of pastor
Noun
  • The local rector warns him away from the book and offers him salvation – but despite his efforts, the book cannot be destroyed and returns to Sarre with dark consequences.
    K.J. Yossman, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Even as book collectors have, over the centuries, shifted shape from rectors to hedge-fund managers, they have remained driven by an impulse that is both febrile and fastidious.
    Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of rector
Noun
  • Specifically, the nuns pointed a finger at Urbain Grandier—a local priest and their confessor.
    Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Its main purpose is not the creation of aesthetic beauty out of the materials at hand (life, pain) but selfishness: relieving the confessor’s desire to confess.
    Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
Definition of confessor
Noun
  • Better would it have been had the vicar never been born.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Atkinson both sends up and deepens stock characters like the vicar, who here has lost his faith; a major who doesn’t feel cut out for civilian life; and the batty lady of the manor, who appears to have arrived via time machine from the Victorian era.
    Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
Definition of vicar
Noun
  • Each week, Maricopa and Pinal county reporter Sasha Hupka reports and curates must-know campaign news, insider exclusives and service-style voter tips from Arizona’s largest and most talented elections team.
    Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Fiennes is backed by a stellar supporting cast that, in addition to Tucci's firebrand Bellini, included John Lithgow as a sanctimonious curate and Carlos Diehz as Cardinal Benitez, intriguing and comforting in his calm stillness.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2024
Definition of curate
Noun
  • Writing in the eighteenth century, Smith compared energetic and often sensationalist Methodist preachers with the more reserved and cerebral parsons of the Church of England.
    Shadi Hamid, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • The other is her violent stepfather, who, in this version, is also the church’s parson (Steven Pasquale).
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
Definition of parson
Noun
  • Roger, a 6-year-old tan and white Kangal shepherd mix, was put on the euthanasia list this fall.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
  • These include border collies, greyhounds and German shepherds, among others.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of shepherd
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