ashram

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Recent Examples of ashram His Dera Sacha Sauda group has ashrams – places of worship – across 10 states and union territories in India, and claims to have 60 million followers worldwide. Manveena Suri, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023 While finishing his three-year degree, Mr. Shetty split his time off between interning at finance firms in London and training at an ashram in Mumbai under Gauranga Das. Alisha Haridasani Gupta, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2023 But after six weeks at the ashram the spaces between my thoughts did grow wider. Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2021 Current Town: Aubrey Jonathon Thunderwood and his wife, Triptta, live in a religious community called an ashram that is dedicated to lifelong learning, spiritual awakening and community service. Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2022 See all Example Sentences for ashram 
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Noun
  • For more than three decades, Iyer, an essayist and a novelist, has spent several weeks a year at a silent retreat in a monastery in Big Sur, California.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • But early construction revealed a network of tunnels that were part of an ancient monastery complex.
    Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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  • The Cathedral of Brixen (Duomo di Bressanone) and the cloister — located in the same complex — should be the first stops on your list.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2024
  • During the two decades before the mass possession at Loudun, the Ursulines, originally a very active and public order, had been forced into the cloister.
    Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • For a more country experience, there is the historic abbey, San Pietro in Valle, located between Spoleto and the Marmore Falls.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Situating them in a real abbey, Rabelais marshaled them as evidence of hypocrisy.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Stories of residents choosing to defend their homes from the flames by themselves — such as the 66-year-old man who died trying to keep his house from being burned by the Eaton fire with a garden hose — have also garnered national media attention.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Montgomery said contractors had also left rat poison strapped to a wooden beam under the house.
    Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 13 Jan. 2025
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  • An excavation in Lincolnshire revealed what appears to be a sacred site Archaeologists digging through a field in Lincolnshire, England, may have found a 1,300-year-old hermitage on the site of a much more ancient henge.
    Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The hermitage was his summer hideaway, a place for monthslong vacations with family and friends.
    Aimee Farrell, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024

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“Ashram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ashram. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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