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In particular, the central hall of the Bene Gesserit convent was a modern church built in the ‘70s that had been abandoned in this Hungarian woodland.
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EW.com, 23 Sep. 2024
Acts Housing will occupy 16,000 square feet − doubling its current office that was once the convent of St. Michael’s Parish.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2024
Oscar winner Cillian Murphy plays a coal merchant and father haunted by secret abuses in a local convent sanctioned by the Catholic Church in the trailer for Small Things Like This from Lionsgate ahead of a Nov. 8 theatrical release.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2024
Delivering coal to the convent, Bill Furlong (Murphy) witnesses a mother forcing her young daughter inside and against her will.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2024
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EW.com, 23 Sep. 2024
Acts Housing will occupy 16,000 square feet − doubling its current office that was once the convent of St. Michael’s Parish.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2024
Oscar winner Cillian Murphy plays a coal merchant and father haunted by secret abuses in a local convent sanctioned by the Catholic Church in the trailer for Small Things Like This from Lionsgate ahead of a Nov. 8 theatrical release.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2024
Delivering coal to the convent, Bill Furlong (Murphy) witnesses a mother forcing her young daughter inside and against her will.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convent
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As a result, the area is especially rich in monasteries that, Dalla Ragione knew, had old gardens and orchards that had escaped the farm consolidations over the past half-century thanks to their isolated locations—and their unwillingness to sell their land to agribusiness.Mark Schapiro, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
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Originally a 17th-century imperial palace, the Lama Temple was converted into a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in 1744.Livia Hengel, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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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
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But even within the cloisters of the monastery and behind the walls of its garden, with the city outside, there is also a solitude around each of the monks.Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2024
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By 1891, Pope Leo XIII raised the status of the priory to the rank of abbey.Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024
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Over the next decade, excavations at the site unearthed dozens of graves containing ornate artifacts and human remains, including the bodies of clergy members and wealthy donors to the medieval priory.Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022
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“Convent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convent. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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