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Recent Examples of nun
Olivia Colman plays the singing nun in charge of the Home for Retired Bears; Paddington’s accompanied on his jungle excursion by the Brown family, headed once again by Hugh Bonneville, this time with Emily Mortimer (replacing Sally Hawkins) as the missus.
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
Emily Watson, who plays a formidable nun, won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Actress at the festival.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
The titular Indika is a young Russian nun in a fantastical version of the nineteenth century.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
As the meeting broke up, Astiz singled out 12 activists with a telltale kiss on the cheek, including three Mothers and two French activist nuns.
—Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
Emily Watson, who plays a formidable nun, won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Actress at the festival.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
The titular Indika is a young Russian nun in a fantastical version of the nineteenth century.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
As the meeting broke up, Astiz singled out 12 activists with a telltale kiss on the cheek, including three Mothers and two French activist nuns.
—Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nun
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When the abbess died in 866, she was buried in the abbey church.Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
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That makes the abbess a likely candidate for the author of the inscription and marginal doodles.Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
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Fire, as the title suggests, provides a central motif of the book and a parable about the precariousness of existence: While the monks struggle to keep the flame of passion alive within, wildfires from without threaten to engulf them and destroy everything.Anderson Tepper, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
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The most famous ones don’t even exist, since they are studiously destroyed as soon as the monks finish making them from sand.Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
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In response, the diocese said in a statement that the Holy See has acted toward healing the Arlington Carmel and the nuns in the community and not simply the former prioress and her former councilors.Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2024
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Matrix by Lauren Groff Currents of violence and devotion coalesce around Marie de France, a 17-year-old sent to be the new prioress of a 12th-century English abbey.Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2024
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Someone who would later make his living from teaching the Course and selling his own tapes, lectures, and videos would have obvious mercenary reasons to construct the story of Helen as a true, reluctant priestess, the project as foreordained, and Jesus as the book’s authentic Voice.Sheila Heti, Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024
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The origin story centers on Kraven's upbringing under a ruthless crime lord dad (Russell Crowe) and journey to become the world's greatest hunter, with Ariana DeBose as voodoo priestess Calypso and Alessandro Nivola as villainous Rhino.KiMi Robinson, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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In the case of poinsettia, Franciscan friars during the 17th century co-opted its use to decorate nativity scenes and altars, as well as to convert Indigenous peoples to Christianity.Norman Ellstrand and Nathan Ellstrand / Made by History, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
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The downtown-superstar cast comprised the funniest lineup of friars possible—Ugo Chukwu, David Greenspan, Crystal Finn, etc.—but there was also a secret seriousness to this comedy, which spoke to the pain and necessity of schism.Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2024
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Only novices believe that a system will work flawlessly.Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2025
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Entering the retail space as novices forced these bottle shop owners to face a steep learning curve.Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 14 Jan. 2025
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But most of the throng was—like Samir, his parents, his older brother, his younger brother, and their 7-year-old sister—simply terrified of staying behind.Jazzmin Jiwa, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
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In the backseat were Dsouza’s older sister, Haily Dsouza, 21, and friend Crystal Alba-Figueroa, neither of whom survived the crash.Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
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Louise, a former anchoress, is her humble, tyrannical maid.Hervé Guibert, Harper's Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
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Some of the spotlighted individuals, like St. Catherine of Siena and English anchoress Julian of Norwich, were celebrated in their day as visionaries, while others, including Kempe and Joan of Arc, were persecuted as heretics.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Nun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nun. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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