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Recent Examples of monk
Thomas O’Connor legally changed his name to Santa Claus in 2005 and is a monk, child welfare activist and local city council member.
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Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
Even my hotel, Botanic Sanctuary Antwerp, a 13th-century monastery turned five-star stunner, boasts its own legends: Its subterranean tunnels, now housing a wine cellar, were rumored to scurry away monks’ lovers.
—Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 13 Dec. 2024
In medieval Europe, villagers and monks who congregated in great cold churches chanted their prayers, also responsively, because that was how the words of their faith could waft into the vaults and acquire divine resonance before enveloping the faithful in reverberant song.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
In instances like these, the best thing to do is follow the advice of a Zen monk named Paul Loomans and befriend what scares you, which Burkeman references in his book.
—Renée Onque, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024
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Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
Even my hotel, Botanic Sanctuary Antwerp, a 13th-century monastery turned five-star stunner, boasts its own legends: Its subterranean tunnels, now housing a wine cellar, were rumored to scurry away monks’ lovers.
—Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 13 Dec. 2024
In medieval Europe, villagers and monks who congregated in great cold churches chanted their prayers, also responsively, because that was how the words of their faith could waft into the vaults and acquire divine resonance before enveloping the faithful in reverberant song.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
In instances like these, the best thing to do is follow the advice of a Zen monk named Paul Loomans and befriend what scares you, which Burkeman references in his book.
—Renée Onque, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monk
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In the case of poinsettia, Franciscan friars during the 17th century co-opted its use to decorate nativity scenes and altars, as well as to convert Indigenous peoples to Christianity.Norman Ellstrand and Nathan Ellstrand / Made by History, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
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The downtown-superstar cast comprised the funniest lineup of friars possible—Ugo Chukwu, David Greenspan, Crystal Finn, etc.—but there was also a secret seriousness to this comedy, which spoke to the pain and necessity of schism.Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2024
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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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The only militia that was permitted to keep its weapons after the civil war (on account of its ongoing fight against the Israeli occupation), Hezbollah today operates as a de facto state within a non-state, deciding Lebanon’s fate in tandem with clerics in Tehran.Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Accusations that emerged earlier against McCarrick, who served as the archbishop of Newark and Washington, D.C., helped fuel the latest wave of the abuse crisis in 2018, along with disclosures from a Pennsylvania grand jury showing hundreds of abusive clerics in that state.Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Robert Herguth, Chicago Sun-Times, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
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Society Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas Tara Isabella Burton A week with the street preachers of Sin City.hazlitt.net, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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Falwell, among other notable preachers, criticized Carter's interview with Playboy as an example of voicing impure thoughts.Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 29 Dec. 2024
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From political infighting among an international coterie of bishops, to nosy clerical gossiping, to Isabella Rossellini as a nun with ulterior motives, to car bombs, the movie — based on an airport novel of the same name by Robert Harris — is arguably overwrought and overstuffed, if endlessly fun.Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 12 Jan. 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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Days before the election, church deacons voted to oust their pastor for finally supporting the admission of a Black worshiper.Bill Marsh, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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For instance, the Catholic Church doesn't permit a woman to be a priest or a deacon.Marianne Schnall, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Monk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monk. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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