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cardinal

[kahr-dn-l] / ˈkɑr dn l /


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Beckett observed that when actress Julie Hesmondhalgh wore the shield she'd won, she looked like a "cardinal" in her long, red dress, adding: "I thought we were in the Vatican!"

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

It was nearly a half decade ago that Lincoln Riley, dressed in a slick blue suit and glossy cardinal tie, stood atop the Coliseum’s rooftop deck, grinning as he gazed out across the field below.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Around the same time that she became Catholic, Spark co-edited the letters of the 19th-century cardinal John Henry Newman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Yet, many banks refuse to have any sort of framework to evaluate that, and certainly don’t communicate about it. To us, that is the cardinal sin.”

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Once, however, I came upon a male cardinal sitting in a hawthorn bush.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Her recent joint interview with three U.S. cardinals about Pope Leo XIV and his church’s opposition to the Iran war and Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown became a major story in April.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

But the Italian enjoyed the patronage of cardinals and popes; Noguchi had to contend with the likes of Robert Moses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

It was for similar reasons that cardinals of different persuasions were thought to have coalesced around him at conclave.

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025

She knows the neighborhood visitors — a pair of cardinals, for instance — and frets about them when we’re away.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025

He had six goats and five hives of bees and a flock of chickens and a herd of geese and a pair of cardinals that stayed near his house the whole year around.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen


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