as in rectory
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Recent Examples of vicarage
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.
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Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 Mar. 2024
In the vicarage garden, the Biddles found a shallow mound with the bones of 264 bodies.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
After a day in the saddle, riders will recharge at hotels with deep local roots, such as The Painswick, a converted 18th-century Palladian house that was once the town's vicarage.
—Jancee Dunn, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2022
Isotope dating studies of the bodies in the vicarage charnel mound found wide disparities.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
As the anger beyond the vicarage rises, the tenor of the debates across the kitchen table grow more urgent.
—Gordon Cox, Variety, 6 July 2022
Anyone in 1963 who still wanted fiction set in the vicarage, publishers thought, could go back to Jane Austen, the writer to whom Pym has ceaselessly, and often wrongly, been compared.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
In the vicarage garden, the bodies in the charnel mound have gone back to sleep.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
Agatha Christie’s fictional hamlet – the home of amateur sleuth Jane Marple – has seen its unfair share of murders, including at the vicarage.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2020
Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 Mar. 2024
In the vicarage garden, the Biddles found a shallow mound with the bones of 264 bodies.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
After a day in the saddle, riders will recharge at hotels with deep local roots, such as The Painswick, a converted 18th-century Palladian house that was once the town's vicarage.
—Jancee Dunn, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2022
Isotope dating studies of the bodies in the vicarage charnel mound found wide disparities.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
As the anger beyond the vicarage rises, the tenor of the debates across the kitchen table grow more urgent.
—Gordon Cox, Variety, 6 July 2022
Anyone in 1963 who still wanted fiction set in the vicarage, publishers thought, could go back to Jane Austen, the writer to whom Pym has ceaselessly, and often wrongly, been compared.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
In the vicarage garden, the bodies in the charnel mound have gone back to sleep.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
Agatha Christie’s fictional hamlet – the home of amateur sleuth Jane Marple – has seen its unfair share of murders, including at the vicarage.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vicarage
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Clement shares his rectory with his opinionated and fearless widowed mother and two dachshund dogs.Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
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The series, which has earned a six-episode order from Acorn TV, features Lewis as Canon Daniel Clement, who shares the rectory with his widowed mother and two dachshunds.Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 19 Dec. 2024
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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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Saying Goodbye to Jimmy Carter: See All the Moving Photos from the Former President's Funeral Services Carter’s funeral proceedings began on Jan. 4, and will conclude at the Carter residence, where he will be buried in a private ceremony.Bailey Richards, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
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Many have viewed this swelling financial support, and the recent visits made by multiple tech executives to Trump's residence in Florida, as an attempt to curry favor with the incoming president.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 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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Indeed, Christmas holiday candles that evoke a wholesome evening spent by the fireplace are an effortless way to maintain good spirits throughout the dark and cold days, while making sure your abode smells absolutely intoxicating.Claire Sullivan, WWD, 30 Dec. 2024
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The striking A-frame abode in Carmel-by-the-Sea, dubbed Banyan House, is the first home designed by Mark Mills, an apprentice at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship from 1944 through 1948.Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, Jupiter rules Sagittarius and Pisces, so making those its domicile signs.Lisa Stardust, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
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In the industrial districts and uncanny domiciles of Istanbul, evil gradually starts to appear.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Vicarage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vicarage. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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