clergyman
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A clergyman I met at Reagan National Airport recently told me that our world is as filled with corruption as a Latin American animal shelter is filled with fleas.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
One character we haven’t cracked as successfully as our U.K. cousins, however, is the clergyman detective — odd, given our culture’s puritanical bent.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026
The ‘Schitt’s Creek’ star returns as a Protestant clergyman who becomes entangled with the mob in this Netflix series co-starring Taylor Ortega and Laurie Metcalf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
"One of Monaco's distinctive features is a kind of positive secularism, which recognises the legitimate autonomy of the spiritual and temporal spheres," Guillaume Paris, a senior clergyman in Monaco, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
He told Charles it was “a wild scheme,” one that would be disreputable to his future career as a clergyman.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
He was joined by clergymen including Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the most senior bishop in Eastern Orthodoxy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
A group of clergymen took their place on the Western Terrace.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025
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
Safronov was among the clergymen who signed a public letter calling for the remains to be returned to his family.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
The fact that they drew large crowds infuriated a group of prominent clergymen, who called their behavior “intolerably offensive and disgusting.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Vocabulary lists containing clergyman
"The Red Shoes" by Hans Christian Andersen
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Adventures of Don Quixote
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Vocabulary from Readings 5, Unit 4
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