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Recent Examples of convent
It was then divided and sold as 26 different lots in 1971, before being bought by a church and used as a convent.
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Raven Brunner, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
Sor Juana spent most of her time in a convent in Mexico City — then the capital of the sprawling colony territory of New Spain — and was a prolific writer in several genres.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Named after a convent built in 1613 in the village of Mane, in the south of France, the label specializes in natural cosmetics and fragrances based on medicinal herbs.
—Jennifer Weil, WWD, 7 Jan. 2025
Murphy plays Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and father of four daughters who discovers the dark secrets kept by the convent of his town.
—Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Raven Brunner, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
Sor Juana spent most of her time in a convent in Mexico City — then the capital of the sprawling colony territory of New Spain — and was a prolific writer in several genres.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Named after a convent built in 1613 in the village of Mane, in the south of France, the label specializes in natural cosmetics and fragrances based on medicinal herbs.
—Jennifer Weil, WWD, 7 Jan. 2025
Murphy plays Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and father of four daughters who discovers the dark secrets kept by the convent of his town.
—Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convent
Noun
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Allied forces have taken Sicily and begun the treacherous push up Italy’s boot, but the advance has stalled near the Abbey of Monte Cassino, a historic monastery planted atop a rocky hill in the Apennine Mountains.—
Catherine Musemeche,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2025
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Constructed initially just outside of Madrid in 1141, this monastery was occupied by Cistercian monks for almost 700 years before becoming storage and stables during the social revolution of the 1800s.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
12 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The wide open space of the glorious Sistine Chapel, wonderful ornate cloisters and marble staircases needed a flip side to them.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2025
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Christian intellectuals increasingly accepted input from classical and contemporary non-Christian sources, particularly in emerging urban schools, which were beginning to replace monastic cloisters as centers of learning in Europe.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Nov. 2024
Noun
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He was tutored by men from the Dominican order and he was baptized at St. Gertrude, a Dominican priory in Cincinnati.—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
11 Feb. 2025
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Charlotte agrees to lead an art workshop at the priory if Graham will escort her to holiday locations around London for her new illustration job.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
8 Dec. 2024
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“Convent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convent. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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