ashram

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Recent Examples of ashram Dlamini, 27, was born in Los Angeles and spent time as a child with her mother at an ashram led by jazz musician Alice Coltrane. Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2023 The Sullivanians adhered to the same principles and traditions as many of the ashrams and rural intentional communities of the era: polyamory, communal living, group parenting, socialist politics. Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023 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 See all Example Sentences for ashram 
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Noun
  • In the 1920s, the monastery was bought by William Randolph Hearst (of the famed publishing family) and dismantled and shipped piece by piece to America.
    Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 12 Jan. 2025
  • In its center lies the ancient inscription written in Greek, a language that was widely used in the region at the time the monastery was constructed, particularly in religious and administrative contexts.
    Newsweek, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The cloister lies just below the Hohensalzburg Palace which towers over Salzburg.
    Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, contributor, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
  • 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
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
  • Inside, the house is now completely empty of furniture.
    Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Her house, though not destroyed, was at the edge of the burn area, and isn’t livable.
    Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Aflame, by Pico Iyer Travel writer and spiritual thinker Pico Iyer has spent time at a Benedictine hermitage in California, a seemingly idyllic setting.
    Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2025
  • 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

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