as in priest
a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church
clerics were sharply divided on the issue of whether the war was morally justified
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His mother's independence as a nurse who ignored many of the Jim Crow South's racial segregation customs, and his exposure to Black playmates, clerics and, neighboring sharecroppers, formed his eventual embrace of equal opportunity for all Americans.
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Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
Virtually overnight, the new gender apartheid state rolled back laws and opportunities that had for decades already lifted Iranian women up from the subservience clerics demanded.
—Mariam Memarsadeghi, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
When the cohort last signed off, a concerned sorcerer had teleported an outmatched cleric right into a giant crocodile’s mouth.
—Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
Even into the modern period, naming a foreign cleric as cardinal was taken as a measure of the importance of their country in the Catholic world.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2025
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Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
Virtually overnight, the new gender apartheid state rolled back laws and opportunities that had for decades already lifted Iranian women up from the subservience clerics demanded.
—Mariam Memarsadeghi, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
When the cohort last signed off, a concerned sorcerer had teleported an outmatched cleric right into a giant crocodile’s mouth.
—Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
Even into the modern period, naming a foreign cleric as cardinal was taken as a measure of the importance of their country in the Catholic world.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Cleric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleric. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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