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Recent Examples of monk
The remaining monks and a layman were rescued and were taken to the hospital.
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Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2025
The isolated site in northern Italy was chosen by an Irish monk, the future St. Columbanus, for his monastery in 614.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
Some of the original commercials featured aliens, devils, and monks, each protecting the secret at all costs.
—Arianne Jones, Saveur, 15 Jan. 2025
The devil will persist in bothering Martin Luther until the bald-headed monk dispatches him by hurling a bottle of ink.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
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Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2025
The isolated site in northern Italy was chosen by an Irish monk, the future St. Columbanus, for his monastery in 614.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
Some of the original commercials featured aliens, devils, and monks, each protecting the secret at all costs.
—Arianne Jones, Saveur, 15 Jan. 2025
The devil will persist in bothering Martin Luther until the bald-headed monk dispatches him by hurling a bottle of ink.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monk
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To get in touch with the miraculous Francis, the folkloric Francis, read the Fioretti, or The Little Flowers of St. Francis, a 14th-century collection of tales about the saint and his friars.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2025
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She will be expected to support communities including monks, nuns, and friars who live according to specific spiritual rules such as Benedictines and Franciscans.—
Kevin Lynn,
Newsweek,
6 Jan. 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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Over the past 2,000 years, Buddhist teachings have encountered distortions and alterations due to mistranslation and misinterpretation of Buddha-dharma by Buddhist patriarchs, eminent monastics, and Buddhist scholars.—
Jon Stojan,
USA TODAY,
25 July 2023
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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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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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Mojtaba’s rise, or the rise of any other cleric, will thus prompt the country’s people to further pressure Tehran.—
Akbar Ganji,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Feb. 2025
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Many Christian clerics and secular rulers in western Europe believed that the popes needed to return to Rome, to distance papal authority from French influence.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
28 Jan. 2025
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Each celebrates a matriarch who was present at the Sunday dinners of Hall’s childhood, including her maternal grandmother, Celestine, to a close family friend, Miss Sally, to the preacher’s wife, Mrs. Brooks.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
14 Feb. 2025
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There’s also Anthony Perkins as a madman in a preacher’s robe who is obsessed with China Blue.—
Jordan Crucchiola,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2025
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Jérémie attaches himself to a local bishop (Jacques Develay) in the process, sending everyone, including the village priest, into a psychosexual frenzy.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 Feb. 2025
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The pope recognized the efforts of American bishops who worked with migrants and refugees.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr.,
USA TODAY,
12 Feb. 2025
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Declining giving and church attendance are a national phenomenon, but some on the board of deacons saw it as an existential threat.—
Frank Langfitt,
NPR,
4 Feb. 2025
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There were rabbis, imams, bishops and deacons from across the city, reflecting the diversity of the victims and New Orleans.—
Carlie Kollath Wells,
Axios,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Monk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monk. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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