clergymen

Example Sentences

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Women came to the defense of the clergymen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

A group of clergymen took their place on the Western Terrace.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025

With other prominent Black clergymen, he helped to win the release of Nelson Mandela and end apartheid in South Africa.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2024

Normally, avant-garde financial tools might come from, well, the financial avant-garde -- bankers, merchants, and investors hunting for short-term profits, not clergymen.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024

High-ranking clergymen experimented with the dangerous ideas of the void and the infinite, even though the ideas struck at the core of the ancient Greek philosophy that the church cherished so much.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife