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Recent Examples of monk
Lott is still a priest but is no longer a monk at Delbarton, nor is he affiliated with the school.
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Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
That’s not a plea to live like a monk.
—Morgan Housel, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
One of the first key players introduced is Dairon, a shadowy monk known as an Expositor voiced in the series by Ming-Na Wen (Mulan; The Mandalorian).
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Guests can access the trail, meditate with the resident Buddhist monk, go whitewater rafting on the Mo Chhu river, and visit the picturesque Punakha Dzong, a centuries-old fortress.
—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monk
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There once lived an Italian friar named Joseph, an almost exact contemporary of Descartes.—
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In the 13th century, German Dominican friar and scientist Albertus Magnus, was among the first to formally recognize and document European leafy mistletoe (Viscum album) as a plant parasite.—
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Kirton, former Mayor Schulman and Lucy Hurston, a deacon at the Bloomfield Congregational Church, jointly sued the town and the town council soon after voters approved the budget referendum in May.—
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Last December, they were ordained to be transitional deacons by Cardinal Robert McElroy, who was then head of the San Diego diocese and is both a controversial and consequential figure in the Catholic church.—
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“Monk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monk. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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