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monk

noun as in man who devotes life to contemplation of god

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His handling of the affair led to bitter divisions between the monks and his recent decision to step down.

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When a South Korean monk performed a Buddhist ritual for a wildly popular K-pop boy band, it was the most unusual ceremony he had ever held.

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In Mumbai, a Jain monk told BBC Marathi that thousands of pigeons would die of hunger due to the feeding ban.

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I use a frother, and a little bit of granulated monk fruit sugar on top.

And the monks who first whisked them into something more.

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