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Recent Examples of monk
One flirts and drinks and dallies and dances; the other is part child, part monk, his mantel packed with icons and crucifixes, his inner landscape a kind of mental Sagrada Família — a weird and extraordinary edifice constructed around the rigors and promises of Christianity.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
And Jim Kale and I were not exactly living the life of a Buddhist monk.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2026
The venerable monk was draped in his maroon and saffron robe, his bare feet looking ashen with dust, a few of his toes still blackened from his arduous walk.
—Sarah Hepola, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026
The Zen Buddhist monk and personal hero of mine Thich Nhat Hanh spent much of his life writing about mindfulness.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
And Jim Kale and I were not exactly living the life of a Buddhist monk.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2026
The venerable monk was draped in his maroon and saffron robe, his bare feet looking ashen with dust, a few of his toes still blackened from his arduous walk.
—Sarah Hepola, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026
The Zen Buddhist monk and personal hero of mine Thich Nhat Hanh spent much of his life writing about mindfulness.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monk
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Its authors tell in previously unheard detail how Cardinal Robert Prevost, a low-key Augustinian friar from Chicago, had quietly garnered support from fellow cardinals as the conclave got underway but remained under the radar of wider attention as a serious candidate.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
1 Mar. 2026
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The display marks a long saga over the friar’s remains and honors the 800th anniversary of his death.—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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These people who see the theater as almost a monastic calling something of a higher order, and they’re brilliantly educated and funny.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Oct. 2025
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As the numbers of women at the highest echelons of learning continue to grow, women will likewise expand their ability to take leadership roles in their monastic and lay communities – helping to improve other nuns’ education and protecting Tibetan culture in the process.—
Darcie Price-Wallace,
The Conversation,
26 Sep. 2025
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The abbot of Wat Saman Rattanaram in Chachoengsao province, about 50 miles east of Bangkok, warned that cremation services may have to be suspended.—
Chas Newkey-Burden,
TheWeek,
22 Mar. 2026
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Phommasan, a native of Laos and abbot at a Buddhist temple in Snellville, was recently fitted with a prosthetic leg at Mercer University.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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An internationally famous leader who lived a mendicant’s life.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
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But those states also have Republican governors, who would have raised holy hell if their constituents had been menaced by these roving mobs of mendicants.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
28 Nov. 2025
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More recently, Kalshi users sued the platform in California earlier this month after the market refused to pay out winners who had successfully predicted the death of Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, citing policy banning betting on deaths.—
Lia Russell
March 27,
Sacbee.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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But a Shiite cleric named Ruhollah Khomeini denounced the unequal pact, saying that an American dog in Iran was treated as more valuable than an Iranian citizen — and his criticism helped propel him to leadership of the opposition and ultimately to the Islamic Revolution.—
Nicholas D. Kristof,
Mercury News,
21 Mar. 2026
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His father, much older than his mom, was a preacher who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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Moreover, as soon as Christianity began to spread outside his native land, Christian converts faced new situations in unexpected contexts, completely different from those of their founder, an itinerant Jewish preacher in the sparsely populated hinterlands of rural Galilee.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
26 Mar. 2026
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Among them was Sandra Olewine, a bishop of the United Methodist Church’s California-Nevada Conference.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
28 Mar. 2026
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Primal Fear charts the story of a Chicago defense attorney who believes that his altar boy client is not guilty of murdering a Catholic bishop.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 2026
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In 2010 then-primate Nicholas Okoh endorsed the ordination of women as deacons, though only in limited forms of ministry such as service in hospitals or schools.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
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Still, Jos Valke, a deacon at the church of Wolder in Maaschtrict, described their shock at the discovery.—
Eleanor Beardsley,
NPR,
30 Mar. 2026
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