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Recent Examples of rectory
The welcoming priest invited him into the rectory, where Malin stole $900 from the cleric’s bedroom, cops said.
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Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 19 July 2024
In addition to her work on behalf of social justice outreach, the Rev. Stanley oversaw the restoration of the church’s Saratoga Street rectory.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2024
However, when the building was going up, all of the parishioners were aghast to learn that the parish chose to build a $250,000 rectory for three priests assigned there instead of a church.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2024
The priest believed him and invited him into the rectory, where the conman stole $900 in cash from his bedroom.
—Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2024
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Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 19 July 2024
In addition to her work on behalf of social justice outreach, the Rev. Stanley oversaw the restoration of the church’s Saratoga Street rectory.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2024
However, when the building was going up, all of the parishioners were aghast to learn that the parish chose to build a $250,000 rectory for three priests assigned there instead of a church.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2024
The priest believed him and invited him into the rectory, where the conman stole $900 in cash from his bedroom.
—Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rectory
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Neighbors fear ‘screaming, shouting, and splashing’ The Sun first reported that Horner and Halliwell had sent off planning permission last year to build a 40ft x 16ft swimming pool at their vicarage house residence, which Horner bought for £2 million ($2.5 million) in 2006.Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 Mar. 2024
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In the vicarage garden, the Biddles found a shallow mound with the bones of 264 bodies.Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
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The church building and parsonage, both owned by the National Park Service, are part of the national historical park along with Tubman’s former brick home, a visitor center, an administrative building, and the reconstructed Home for the Aged and Indigent Negroes, which are privately owned.Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2024
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The fire was on the second floor of the parsonage, the official said.Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 17 May 2024
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About this other woman with all these identifying details—who finds her father hanging in the garage of the family manse—in Falcon’s Flight.Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
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Other amenities in Ye’s manse include a resort-style waterfall pool, along with another pool for swimming laps, a pool house, and a luxe gazebo.India Roby, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2024
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In 2019, Oren and Tal sold a $238 million Manhattan condo that is to this day the most expensive private residence ever sold in the U.S., according to Forbes.Sam Woodward, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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He is accused of fatally stabbing University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in an off-campus residence in Moscow in 2022.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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An excavation in Lincolnshire revealed what appears to be a sacred site Archaeologists digging through a field in Lincolnshire, England, may have found a 1,300-year-old hermitage on the site of a much more ancient henge.Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
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The hermitage was his summer hideaway, a place for monthslong vacations with family and friends.Aimee Farrell, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
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The claim: Video shows California earthquake in December 2024 A Dec. 5 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a video of the interior of a high-rise dwelling during what appears to be an earthquake.Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
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An underground city offered several advantages over surface dwellings.Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
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According to evidence introduced at trial, on May 29, 2023, the defendant provided alcohol to a minor female who was invited to spend the night at Hariprasad’s house by a minor female friend.Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 Dec. 2024
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This is evident in the house and, later, in the greater town of Macondo.Fernanda Pérez Sánchez, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2024
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The mansion with its stone façade and slate roof houses some 50 rooms that spread across 13,000 square feet of living space and five levels.Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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The painstaking restoration of Notre Dame involved the labor of hundreds of specialized artisans who refashioned everything from the lead sheets used to form the nave’s peaked roof to vital portions of stone masonry, CBS reported.Martin Lerma, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Rectory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rectory. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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