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Recent Examples of friar
Bone church The remains of more than 4,000 Capuchin friars adorn the walls and ceiling of the crypt under the Church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome.
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Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
Guido eventually became a Dominican friar, dedicating himself to making art within the mendicant order; after his death, in 1455, he became known as Fra Angelico, or the Angelic Friar.
—Louise Bokkenheuser, Air Mail, 4 Oct. 2025
When Las Casas first landed in Hispaniola (today divided by Haiti in the west and the Dominican Republic in the east), his head was already crowned with a friar’s tonsure.
—Greg Grandin
september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
The friars aimed to teach them European agricultural methods, including grape growing and winemaking.
—Layne Randolph, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for friar
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He had been dressed as a monk for Halloween weekend, with a hooded robe, but Rachel Kelly said he was found shirtless in his sweatpants.—
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Writing about 200 years after Fibonacci, the monk Luca Pacioli (who taught mathematics to both Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer) described the ‘Italian’ approach to bookkeeping.—
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But those states also have Republican governors, who would have raised holy hell if their constituents had been menaced by these roving mobs of mendicants.—
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His eyes alternated between the mendicant and Bob.—
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The series includes the participation of Rusty Yates, Andrea’s former husband, as well as former followers of preacher Michael Woroniecki.—
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They were covered in the press as the hipster ministers, the preachers in sneakers, the hypepriests.—
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These people who see the theater as almost a monastic calling something of a higher order, and they’re brilliantly educated and funny.—
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As the numbers of women at the highest echelons of learning continue to grow, women will likewise expand their ability to take leadership roles in their monastic and lay communities – helping to improve other nuns’ education and protecting Tibetan culture in the process.—
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Matthew Long, a reverend at Portland’s Sudanese Fellowship Presbyterian Church, said that his community of South Sudanese worshippers panicked after hearing the news of TPS ending.—
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Weeks before he would be crowned that year’s winner, a local reverend declared his commitment to supporting the city’s growing reputation.—
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Many chanted support for Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the Shah, or King, deposed in the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought the clerics to power.—
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Iran has been a theocracy since 1979, when clerics toppled a secular monarch allied with the West, leading to the formation of the Islamic Republic led by Khomenei.—
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The abbot later said the temple would cover her medical expenses, according to Pairat.—
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The abbot said the temple would cover her medical expenses, according to Pairat.—
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Prevost was becoming a bishop of consequence.—
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The attack hit the Sokoto region of northwestern Nigeria, an area where a local Catholic bishop said in October that Christians aren't facing persecution.—
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“Friar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/friar. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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