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Recent Examples of vicarage
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.
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Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 Mar. 2024
In the vicarage garden, the Biddles found a shallow mound with the bones of 264 bodies.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
After a day in the saddle, riders will recharge at hotels with deep local roots, such as The Painswick, a converted 18th-century Palladian house that was once the town's vicarage.
—Jancee Dunn, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2022
Isotope dating studies of the bodies in the vicarage charnel mound found wide disparities.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
As the anger beyond the vicarage rises, the tenor of the debates across the kitchen table grow more urgent.
—Gordon Cox, Variety, 6 July 2022
Anyone in 1963 who still wanted fiction set in the vicarage, publishers thought, could go back to Jane Austen, the writer to whom Pym has ceaselessly, and often wrongly, been compared.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
In the vicarage garden, the bodies in the charnel mound have gone back to sleep.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
Agatha Christie’s fictional hamlet – the home of amateur sleuth Jane Marple – has seen its unfair share of murders, including at the vicarage.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2020
Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 Mar. 2024
In the vicarage garden, the Biddles found a shallow mound with the bones of 264 bodies.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
After a day in the saddle, riders will recharge at hotels with deep local roots, such as The Painswick, a converted 18th-century Palladian house that was once the town's vicarage.
—Jancee Dunn, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2022
Isotope dating studies of the bodies in the vicarage charnel mound found wide disparities.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
As the anger beyond the vicarage rises, the tenor of the debates across the kitchen table grow more urgent.
—Gordon Cox, Variety, 6 July 2022
Anyone in 1963 who still wanted fiction set in the vicarage, publishers thought, could go back to Jane Austen, the writer to whom Pym has ceaselessly, and often wrongly, been compared.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
In the vicarage garden, the bodies in the charnel mound have gone back to sleep.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
Agatha Christie’s fictional hamlet – the home of amateur sleuth Jane Marple – has seen its unfair share of murders, including at the vicarage.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vicarage
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The series, which has earned a six-episode order from Acorn TV, features Lewis as Canon Daniel Clement, who shares the rectory with his widowed mother and two dachshunds.Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 19 Dec. 2024
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Clement shares his rectory with his opinionated and fearless widowed mother and two dachshund dogs.Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
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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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What To Know Deputies with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office responded to a residence for a reported family disturbance at around 4:15 a.m. on Friday.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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Barely three months after Julie Wainwright put her strikingly modern residence in a prime pocket of Beverly Hills up for sale at nearly $12 million, the founder and former CEO of The RealReal has already offloaded the property.Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 22 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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Photo : One Point Media Group The front entrance to the primary dwelling.Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2024
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In 2023, the whole dwelling was placed on the market for $1.279 million, eventually selling for $1 million.Joyce Chen, Architectural Digest, 13 Dec. 2024
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The English cottage resembled Winslet's character, Iris's cozy abode, and Marsh was filled with excitement.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
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This was when Gomez bought her first home: a $2.175 million traditional-style abode in Tarzana, California.Joyce Chen, Architectural Digest, 17 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, Jupiter rules Sagittarius and Pisces, so making those its domicile signs.Lisa Stardust, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
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In the industrial districts and uncanny domiciles of Istanbul, evil gradually starts to appear.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Vicarage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vicarage. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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