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Recent Examples of vicar
Fast forward two years, after a period of poor mental health following my injury, the realization of the vicar’s sentence really hit.
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Abigail Wise,
Outside,
3 Jan. 2026
Thankfully, the book was saved by being thrown out of a window by a local vicar, Johann Erichsons.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Dec. 2025
Essie, the vicar’s wife in Chloe Marr, cannot believe that the beautiful and glamorous Chloe was ever happy.
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Literary Hub,
8 Dec. 2025
While Will is feverishly negotiating with a powerful vicar who wants to censor Love’s Labor’s Lost, he is devastated by the 1596 loss of his son to the plague.
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Peter Bart,
Deadline,
4 Dec. 2025
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Abigail Wise,
Outside,
3 Jan. 2026
Thankfully, the book was saved by being thrown out of a window by a local vicar, Johann Erichsons.
—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Dec. 2025
Essie, the vicar’s wife in Chloe Marr, cannot believe that the beautiful and glamorous Chloe was ever happy.
—
Literary Hub,
8 Dec. 2025
While Will is feverishly negotiating with a powerful vicar who wants to censor Love’s Labor’s Lost, he is devastated by the 1596 loss of his son to the plague.
—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
4 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vicar
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There was only one doctor left in the country who could do it, neurosurgeon Volodymyr Smolanka, acting rector of Uzhhorod National University.
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The Rectory As the name suggests, The Rectory was originally home to the rector of nearby All Saints’ Church and his 14 children.
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That was the end of things until last October, when the Washington County Attorney’s Office in Utah received a tip from Barry Diamond — senior pastor of Legacy Christian Church, where Vander Meer had worked as a youth pastor — that Bernadette may have been pushed to her death.
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Chadwick was a former pastor of Forest Hill.
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Robin, our hero, is the son of a country clergyman.
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The trio of vicars starts with James Norton as Sidney Chambers, the doe-eyed clergyman with a taste for cool jazz and clever women.
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It was said that the room contained a troubled spirit and that the parson was supposed to bless the space.
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Among the beetle-collecting country parsons of his day, it was often assumed that the world had been created six thousand years ago and that many geological anomalies could be explained by Noah’s Flood.
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Meanwhile, churchmen claimed the authority to restrain violence, encouraged just wars and threatened violent behaviors with spiritual sanctions.
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Not all birth rituals depended on the intercession of a saint or the authority of a churchman.
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The ritual confers the Holy Spirit from one bishop to another and recalls Christ’s gesture to his apostles.
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Under the church’s in-house canon law, consecrating a bishop without papal consent incurs an automatic excommunication for both the people administering the consecration and the bishops receiving it.
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The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in the wind.
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The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers.
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Rosa, who is legally blind, has Daisy, a German shepherd, to care for her.
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The delightful and deceptively deep family mystery comedy stars Hugh Jackman as an English shepherd (Hugh Jackman) who is found dead.
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“Vicar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vicar. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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