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clergyman

[klur-jee-muhn] / ˈklɜr dʒi mən /


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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 parsonage between the village and the moors where the Brontes lived with their clergyman father and brother, Branwell, is now a museum dedicated to their memory.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026

It turns out that each of them has some tangled history with the deceased clergyman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

But maybe she had reason—maybe another clergyman was in the offing.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The researchers say the register lays bare the breadth of which individuals contributed financially to the slave trade - from monarchs and politicians, to plumbers and clergymen.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Fabien Albertin, a French legislator, in 1932 revealed on the floor of the National Assembly leaked banking details of French politicians, clergymen, celebrities and industrialists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 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

Their presence marks the beginning not of discovery itself but of a culture of discovery, a culture which was now shared by government-office holders and sophisticated clergymen.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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