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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
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The planners lead them to their dream venue Desierto De Los Leones, a 400-year-old convent in a forest of old-growth trees just outside of the city.Shelby Wax, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
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When the sisters were old enough, their widowed father sent them to a boarding school at a convent in Warsaw, Poland.Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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Prescott presents the dissolution of the monasteries from the numerous interlaced viewpoints of ordinary people – nuns made homeless, devout country people bewildered, the instigators of the Pilgrimage of Grace heading towards their ghastly ends.The Week UK, theweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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Additionally, the nuns’ supporters have accused Olson of seeking to gain control of the monastery.Charna Flam, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
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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
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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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Situating them in a real abbey, Rabelais marshaled them as evidence of hypocrisy.Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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The Princess of Wales also sent the Scouts home from the fourth iteration of her Together at Christmas carol service home with a little something special — Christmas trees that were brought in to decorate the ancient abbey.Janine Henni, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Nunnery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nunnery. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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