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Recent Examples of vicar
Better would it have been had the vicar never been born.
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Spin Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
Atkinson both sends up and deepens stock characters like the vicar, who here has lost his faith; a major who doesn’t feel cut out for civilian life; and the batty lady of the manor, who appears to have arrived via time machine from the Victorian era.
—Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
Foulger is the main author of the report as well as the vicar of St. Nicholas' Church in Durham, England.
—Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 17 Aug. 2024
The village’s new vicar also got propositioned by another suspect, which should happen every week.
—Mandi Bierly, TVLine, 7 July 2024
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Spin Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
Atkinson both sends up and deepens stock characters like the vicar, who here has lost his faith; a major who doesn’t feel cut out for civilian life; and the batty lady of the manor, who appears to have arrived via time machine from the Victorian era.
—Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
Foulger is the main author of the report as well as the vicar of St. Nicholas' Church in Durham, England.
—Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 17 Aug. 2024
The village’s new vicar also got propositioned by another suspect, which should happen every week.
—Mandi Bierly, TVLine, 7 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vicar
Noun
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Ciotti had gone to speak to the school’s rector, to explain why the girl’s real name could not be used.—
D. T. Max,
The New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2024
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Other information provided by the Archdiocese noted Reidy was ordained by Bishop Timothy J. Harrington at Saint Paul Cathedral in Worcester in 1994, and was assigned to St. Peter Parish in Worcester before becoming rector of Saint Paul Cathedral by Bishop Daniel P. Reilly.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Mayall also served as a pastor for the St. Joseph Parish in Wilmette from July 2016 to December 2018, according to a separate letter sent Saturday to the Saints Joseph and Francis Xavier Parish.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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Barbee also worked as a full-time youth pastor at a Los Angeles church from 1999 to 2004, according to his LinkedIn profile.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Feb. 2025
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Ralph Fiennes plays Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, a British clergyman who is the dean of the College of Cardinals at the Vatican.—
Armond White,
National Review,
19 Feb. 2025
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The occasion marked the halfway point between the winter and spring equinoxes, with clergymen blessing used candles and handing them out to locals every February 2.—
Rachel Dobkin,
Newsweek,
2 Feb. 2025
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Writing in the eighteenth century, Smith compared energetic and often sensationalist Methodist preachers with the more reserved and cerebral parsons of the Church of England.—
Shadi Hamid,
Foreign Affairs,
18 June 2024
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The other is her violent stepfather, who, in this version, is also the church’s parson (Steven Pasquale).—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2024
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Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Aug. 2024
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If the dominant Spaniards of The Betrothed are unjust, self-interested, and pompous, few of the Italians — including churchmen — are any better.—
David Harsanyi,
National Review,
25 Jan. 2024
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Kingsley was born in 1819, the son of a curate who subjected him to a rigorous and frequently brutal education.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Jan. 2025
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It was supposed to be Trismegistus, but the maid tasked with telling the curate got distracted and forgot all but the first syllable.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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 Holy Father has clearly identified for the U.S. bishops and Church the protection and advocacy for the dignity of migrants as the preeminent urgency at this moment.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
12 Feb. 2025
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The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in the wind.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacramento Bee,
18 Apr. 2024
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“Vicar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vicar. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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