variants
or crozier
as in crook
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Recent Examples of crosier
World & Nation Notre Dame’s resurrection: Its chief architect on rebuilding France’s ‘heart’ in 5 years
Dec. 6, 2024
The ceremony began with Ulrich symbolically reopening Notre Dame’s grand wooden doors, tapping them three times with his fire-scarred crosier.
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Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
Monsignor Laurent Ulrich, the archbishop of Paris, will then officially reopen the cathedral by banging his crosier on the main door.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 29 Nov. 2024
McElroy moved slowly during the service, often resting his hands on a wooden crosier, a staff shaped like a shepherd’s crook.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
Monsignor Laurent Ulrich, the archbishop of Paris, will then officially reopen the cathedral by banging his crosier on the main door.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 29 Nov. 2024
McElroy moved slowly during the service, often resting his hands on a wooden crosier, a staff shaped like a shepherd’s crook.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crosier
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During this two-year period, a mix of crafty and bumbling crooks took advantage of a tax loophole that — not unlike the plot hatched in Mel Brooks’ The Producers — allowed labels to write off losses on albums that had supposedly flopped.Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2024
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By Simone Melvin, Forbes Staff FRESH FROM A Wednesday taping of Good Morning America, Michael Strahan heads to downtown Manhattan cradling two leather watch cases in the crook of his left arm, like he’s just recovered a fumble.Simone Melvin, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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Many people have yet to learn that an industrial factory outside of Boston designs, casts, blasts, rolls, hammers, buffs and tests at least a million Zildjian cymbals a year.Brittney Melton, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
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Their heads appeared to have been bashed in with a hammer that lay near the bodies.Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
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Another potential contender for the gavel was Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.), who also sits on the committee, according to one source.Emily Brooks, The Hill, 16 Dec. 2024
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But the Louisiana Republicans will still need to secure the support of the majority of the chamber in the new year to hold onto the gavel.Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2024
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The precursor of the xylophone and marimba, a balafon is made by carefully cutting 21 wooden slats into different lengths, fixing them atop hallow calabashes, and striking them with mallets wound with the gum and sap of a rubber tree.Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
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Walker showed me a video of the fingers surviving blows from a mallet.James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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He was reportedly found on a service road, supporting himself with two walking sticks and a cut-up sleeping bag wrapped around his legs for warmth.Jennifer Hauser, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
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Look for walking sticks specifically designed for older individuals:17 Choose an adjustable pole.Nancy LeBrun, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024
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Some of the amulets are shaped like scarab beetles, which were thought to be imbued with magical properties in ancient Egypt.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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The emerging picture, paleontologists reported in Nature, is that dinosaur ancestors were omnivorous animals that ate beetles, leaves and a little bit of everything.Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2024
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John Franklin-Myers mauls RT Rosengarten and gets sack, knocking Baltimore out of FG position.Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2024
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Cama’s 7-point try box came in the 74th minute and was a result of the Legion muscling their way to a series of successful scrums, mauls and rucks before Cama punched it over inside the 5-meter line area.Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
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“Crosier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crosier. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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