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Recent Examples of convent
According to The New York Times, Georgie became involved in the theater as a young child while studying at a convent.
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Nicole Briese, People.com, 22 Feb. 2025
During a weekend retreat at a remote countryside convent for intensive rehearsals, Lucia’s growing fascination with a restoration worker begins to strain her bond with Ana-Maria and the rest of the choir.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
At the convent, in place of noise and action there is what the nuns call prayer, and the narrator simply calls thinking.
—Lauren Christensen, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
Since then, the order has grown to three hundred nuns in thirty convents around the world.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Nicole Briese, People.com, 22 Feb. 2025
During a weekend retreat at a remote countryside convent for intensive rehearsals, Lucia’s growing fascination with a restoration worker begins to strain her bond with Ana-Maria and the rest of the choir.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
At the convent, in place of noise and action there is what the nuns call prayer, and the narrator simply calls thinking.
—Lauren Christensen, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
Since then, the order has grown to three hundred nuns in thirty convents around the world.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convent
Noun
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In winter 1524-1525, the peasants were able to capture castles and monasteries without much bloodshed.—
Michael Bruening,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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Through centuries, pilgrims stopped at the monastery there, and then the island became a vineyard, a vegetable garden and eventually a fortified military site.—
Luisa Zargani,
WWD,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The wide open space of the glorious Sistine Chapel, wonderful ornate cloisters and marble staircases needed a flip side to them.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2025
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Christian intellectuals increasingly accepted input from classical and contemporary non-Christian sources, particularly in emerging urban schools, which were beginning to replace monastic cloisters as centers of learning in Europe.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Nov. 2024
Noun
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He was tutored by men from the Dominican order and he was baptized at St. Gertrude, a Dominican priory in Cincinnati.—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
11 Feb. 2025
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Charlotte agrees to lead an art workshop at the priory if Graham will escort her to holiday locations around London for her new illustration job.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
8 Dec. 2024
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“Convent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convent. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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