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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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Accommodations—such as Torre del Marqués and El Convent 1613—are impressive farmhouses, charming little villas, and convents converted into hideaways.Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2024
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This is the story of what happened in Loudun, France, in 1632, when an entire convent of nuns was found to be possessed by demons.Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
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From photogenic fishing villages and sumptuous seafood to ancient monasteries, and gorgeous beaches (many of them within an hour’s drive of Istanbul), a lot of things make this coast extra special.Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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In 1548, Johannes Gast wrote about a Faust who had played tricks on a group of monks by introducing a poltergeist into the monastery.James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 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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Surrounding the abbey is a steep hillside village and a stone wall with turrets.Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 1 Nov. 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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“Nunnery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nunnery. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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