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Recent Examples of nunnery
The entrepreneur is told to either get thee to a nunnery (with apologies to Hamlet) or get thee to a mentor.
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Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2024
Sweeney plays Cecilia, an American nun who transfers to Italy and is forced to face a lot of dark secrets hidden in the walls of the gorgeous nunnery.
—William Earl, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024
Their complex scents have a an uncanny quality, and an ability to transport you to far off places, evoking things like the mossy stone walls of a medieval nunnery, a chimney fire on a wintery day, or in this case, the waxed parquet floors of the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles.
—Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 6 Dec. 2023
The coal merchant Bill Furlong discovers during a Christmas-week delivery that a young woman has been shut in a nunnery’s coal shed overnight.
—Joanna Biggs, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2023
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Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2024
Sweeney plays Cecilia, an American nun who transfers to Italy and is forced to face a lot of dark secrets hidden in the walls of the gorgeous nunnery.
—William Earl, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024
Their complex scents have a an uncanny quality, and an ability to transport you to far off places, evoking things like the mossy stone walls of a medieval nunnery, a chimney fire on a wintery day, or in this case, the waxed parquet floors of the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles.
—Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 6 Dec. 2023
The coal merchant Bill Furlong discovers during a Christmas-week delivery that a young woman has been shut in a nunnery’s coal shed overnight.
—Joanna Biggs, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nunnery
Noun
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Bill undergoes a moral crisis when his path crosses with a wretched head nun (Emily Watson) at a convent that’s part of the notorious Magdalene Laundries — a place of severe abuse of women.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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At least 10 people including a child have died in Indonesia following a series of powerful volcanic eruptions that destroyed homes and a Catholic convent, authorities said.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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All guests of La Ferme have access to the facilities of the abbey and a shuttle is available to transport them back and forth.Laurie Werner, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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The Irish monk Columba settled on Iona in the sixth century and founded an abbey that became a center of Gaelic Christianity.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Nunnery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nunnery. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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