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Recent Examples of friar
According to Spanish Franciscan friar Diego de Landa Calderon – most famous for his zeal in destroying Maya codices – the Maya painted human beings before forcing them onto an altar and cutting out their beating hearts.
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Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 1 Dec. 2024
All the stops on this tour are locations administered by the Dominican friars.
—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
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Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 1 Dec. 2024
All the stops on this tour are locations administered by the Dominican friars.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for friar
Noun
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Every morning, the monks gathered there, arranging themselves on the long stone benches, to discuss the matters of the day.—
Amanda Petrusich,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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Unlike a synod of bishops, this will be a unique gathering of bishops, clergy, monks, friars, nuns and lay men and women.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN,
15 Mar. 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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To the congregation, Rose had been much more than a charismatic preacher.—
Guthrie Scrimgeour,
Rolling Stone,
16 Mar. 2025
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Blige also connected jazz (scat singing, riffing on a phrase, improvising wordless lines), gospel (testifying akin to a preacher delivering a sermon) and hip hop traditions.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
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While the Thai Buddhism depicted in The White Lotus is not completely realistic, there are several authentic ways to engage deeply with Buddhism, ranging from offering donations to short meditation retreats to ordination as a monastic.—
Brooke Schedneck,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2025
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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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Hood watched Smith — who had become his close friend — gasping for breath like a goldfish out of water in a way that will haunt the reverend forever.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
29 Mar. 2025
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Despite the reverend’s appeal for calm, a third fight broke out as the service concluded, forcing police to clear the church.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
19 Jan. 2025
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Hardline Muslim clerics and their religious police have been sidelined.—
Ned Temko,
The Christian Science Monitor,
13 Mar. 2025
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He was elected leader of the armed group in 1992 as a 32-year-old cleric.—
CNN Staff,
CNN,
23 Feb. 2025
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Among the film’s interviewees are two former nuns at the school and the abbot who supervised several of the priests accused of rape and murder.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 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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Some clutched rosaries, others took selfies or touched the protective glass in front of the seemingly sleeping young man, who died of leukemia at 15 in 2006 and is generating a devotion that astonishes even Assisi’s bishop.—
Time,
Time,
27 Mar. 2025
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Last month, days before his hospitalization, Pope Francis penned a letter to U.S. bishops that criticized the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans.—
Jonathan Bullington,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Friar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/friar. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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