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Recent Examples of confessor
The same thing could be witnessed, in decades past, on more secular (but hardly less ceremonial) television programs like The Oprah Winfrey Show, where talk show luminaries act as confessors to erring movie stars.
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Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
This is Benny’s domain, where over 23 years he’s served as confidant and confessor for the city’s most elite — and the people who want to feel that way for just one night.
—Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
One confessor told him not to worry so much.
—New York Times, 18 June 2021
Those who were imprisoned for their faith but released – called confessors — were venerated by their communities in the same way.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 25 Jan. 2023
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Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
This is Benny’s domain, where over 23 years he’s served as confidant and confessor for the city’s most elite — and the people who want to feel that way for just one night.
—Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
One confessor told him not to worry so much.
—New York Times, 18 June 2021
Those who were imprisoned for their faith but released – called confessors — were venerated by their communities in the same way.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 25 Jan. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for confessor
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While the majority of chaplains are Christian, the program includes individuals of Jewish and Muslim faiths.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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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
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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
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The pastors and elders were not having it, but youth organizations loved us and embraced us.Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
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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
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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
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Better would it have been had the vicar never been born.SPIN Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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Pope Francis has made significant changes to the funeral rites that will be observed upon his death, streamlining the rituals to reflect his role as a bishop rather than focusing on his papal status.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
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They are set to be bailed out in two days, and the colony’s bishop demands that the victims forgive them—or else face excommunication and be denied a spot in heaven.Ruth Madievsky, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
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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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Late Monday, Puerto Rico's archbishop, Roberto O. Gonzalez Nieves, called on Trump to more forcefully reject the rhetoric at the rally.Erin Doherty, Axios, 29 Oct. 2024
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Pierre, the papal nuncio, will install Grob as the new archbishop.Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Confessor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confessor. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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