conventicle

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conventicle
Noun
  • Siba said the security forces inspected the document, searched the house for weapons and, finding none, told the family to remain inside.
    Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The home was featured on Zillow Gone Wild, a Facebook page that highlights unique house listings all over the country, and people were … well … impressed?
    TJ Macias, Miami Herald, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Our friends and family gathered in the meetinghouse and sat in silent Quaker worship.
    Ashley M. Wilcox, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The Society of Friends was the first religion to officially condemn that horror, but some meetinghouses—which are known for having benches arranged in egalitarian formations—featured segregated seating for Black members.
    Gail Cornwall, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In the entry hall, an archway slices through the central travertine wall without a single bead of trim.
    Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • That is quite the hall for Priester, who was surpassed by both Newcomb and Dobbins not long after Richard Fitts pulled away from the entire pack.
    Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • These are players whose names wouldn't be on everybody's lips, even three camps ago.
    Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Oz: The tensions were so crazy, and there were different camps.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
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“Conventicle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conventicle. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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