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Recent Examples of monk
His character was ultimately written off in season 2, with Stanford going off to become a Shinto monk in Kyoto.
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EW.com, 13 Jan. 2025
The Uttar Pradesh state, headed by Adityanath — a powerful Hindu monk and a popular hard-line Hindu politician in Modi’s party — has allocated more than $765 million for this year’s event.
—Sheikh Saaliq, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
You’re meant to start along the edges and proceed clockwise, passing the pictures of monks, deities, or patrons in their neat squares.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
His only son is a Buddhist monk in Thailand, while his two daughters are not involved in his business.
—Yessar Rosendar, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
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EW.com, 13 Jan. 2025
The Uttar Pradesh state, headed by Adityanath — a powerful Hindu monk and a popular hard-line Hindu politician in Modi’s party — has allocated more than $765 million for this year’s event.
—Sheikh Saaliq, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
You’re meant to start along the edges and proceed clockwise, passing the pictures of monks, deities, or patrons in their neat squares.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
His only son is a Buddhist monk in Thailand, while his two daughters are not involved in his business.
—Yessar Rosendar, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monk
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She will be expected to support communities including monks, nuns, and friars who live according to specific spiritual rules such as Benedictines and Franciscans.—
Kevin Lynn,
Newsweek,
6 Jan. 2025
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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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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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Even into the modern period, naming a foreign cleric as cardinal was taken as a measure of the importance of their country in the Catholic world.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2025
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Iranian clerics who were willing to work with the Shah were undermined.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
11 Jan. 2025
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In the beginning, Moore actually wanted to be a preacher.—
Anthony Mason,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2025
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Sports Rose Bowl live updates: Ohio State dominates, but Oregon scores late in first half 18 minutes ago If the Rose Bowl is a church, then Joel Klatt is a preacher.—
Sam Farmer,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Jan. 2025
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Here’s a list January 21, 2025 3:19 PM Read Next National US Catholic bishops condemn Trump immigration crackdown.—
Natalie Demaree,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2025
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In 1980, the bishops of the United States began partnering with the federal government to carry out this service when Congress created the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP).—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
26 Jan. 2025
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That desire led him to the seminary in 1982, and, three years later, he was ordained as a deacon and priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut.—
Melanie Stetson Freeman,
The Christian Science Monitor,
21 Jan. 2025
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By the seventh century, deacons from seven of the oldest and most important churches of Rome served as special advisers to the popes.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Monk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monk. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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