priest
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Before processing to the cemetery, the priest asked the mourners to believe that the girls -- whose names translate to "faith" and "love" -- were now in a better place and with God.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
“She’s a bill-payer, but just like a financial adviser has to be priest, rabbi and therapist to their clients, Sharon was that way to us. She did everything,” said Sydney, who lives in New York.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
"She was a royal, but at the same time, a chief priest," says local historian Emmanuel Arkoful, a distant relative.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
She was pulled into a scheme involving a man who posed as a priest, another posing as an immigration judge, and another posing as Oscar Carrillo, an attorney licensed in Texas who practices tax law.
From Salon • May 2, 2026
Dvoyka—or maybe Troyka—stood beside the priest, but she couldn’t see the other one anywhere.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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