Examples of clerical in a Sentence
Adjective
She spent the summer doing clerical work for a lawyer.
a member of our clerical staff
The mistake was due to a clerical error.
Noun
some of the state's most prominent clericals have spoken out against the measure
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Miranda Murray, USA Today, 26 May 2025
Our problem is with a clerical regime that is behind every problem in the region: Hizballah, Hamas, the Houthis, the militias that have conducted attacks out of Iraq and Syria.
—Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
Kemet Coleman, 38, remembers spending time in his father’s office as a child, helping with clerical work and witnessing the deep gratitude of the people his father helped.
—J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 18 May 2025
The board, then majority Democrat, dismissed his challenges, concluding that voters had followed the rules in place at the time and that much of the missing information reflected administrative or clerical errors.
—Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 16 May 2025
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Adjective
The death in 2022 of a young Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of the morality police for allegedly violating hijab rules sparked Iran's biggest domestic unrest since the 1979 revolution that brought its clerical rulers to power.
—Miranda Murray, USA Today, 26 May 2025
Our problem is with a clerical regime that is behind every problem in the region: Hizballah, Hamas, the Houthis, the militias that have conducted attacks out of Iraq and Syria.
—Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
Kemet Coleman, 38, remembers spending time in his father’s office as a child, helping with clerical work and witnessing the deep gratitude of the people his father helped.
—J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 18 May 2025
The board, then majority Democrat, dismissed his challenges, concluding that voters had followed the rules in place at the time and that much of the missing information reflected administrative or clerical errors.
—Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 16 May 2025
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“Clerical.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clerical. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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