clergyman
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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
"They not only want to destroy us physically, but they first and foremost want to erase our memory," the clergyman, with a long grey-and-white beard, said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 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
It turns out that each of them has some tangled history with the deceased clergyman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
British officers would not allow him a Bible or a visit from a clergyman.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
Some clergymen are uneasy about chatbots that claim to provide spiritual guidance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
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
Ukrainian media named four of the Ukrainians who met with Johnson, including these three clergymen:
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 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
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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