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parson

[pahr-suhn] / ˈpɑr sən /


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Roy is mirrored in turn by the later appearance of another parson, Preston Teagardin, played by Robert Pattinson with the same lip-smacking comic flamboyance he recently brought to “The King.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2020

In chapter 36, Lucy arrives at the home of a priggish parson, whose wife is desperately ill with typhoid.

From Washington Post ● May 26, 2020

The sympathetic parson will reassure him, we think, but that’s not what happens.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2018

“The point is not what I see, but what I feel,” he explains to the local parson, William Ransome.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2017

“You may have the yew tree,” the parson said.

From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness

Ah, say the parsons, then why not “disclose” any AI use?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The parsons of the press corps then moved en masse to get a comment from the Journal, which in this case meant me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Here are striding parsons, botanising antiquarians, madmen, painters and poets.

From Economist ● Nov. 13, 2014

Runcie admits that his Scottish engineer father had a "profound distrust of parsons."

From Time Magazine Archive

Any one could see with half an eye that the woman was as pious as could be—the kind that was hand and glove with parsons.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie




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