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Murphy plays Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and father of four daughters who discovers the dark secrets kept by the convent of his town.
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Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Small Things Like These stars Cillian Murphy as a father who discovers disturbing revelations at a local convent in Ireland in 1985.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
For centuries, The Courier Journal reported more than 100 years ago, their remains were kept in Roman catacombs alongside other martyrs who had been killed over their religious beliefs before being taken to a convent in Agnani, Italy, sometime around 1700.
—Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2024
Packed with more than 30 different plant species, this open-air space stands as a testament to the building’s lengthy history, equipped with a well that was installed in the 1600s while the space served as a convent for the Order of Saint Clare.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Small Things Like These stars Cillian Murphy as a father who discovers disturbing revelations at a local convent in Ireland in 1985.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
For centuries, The Courier Journal reported more than 100 years ago, their remains were kept in Roman catacombs alongside other martyrs who had been killed over their religious beliefs before being taken to a convent in Agnani, Italy, sometime around 1700.
—Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2024
Packed with more than 30 different plant species, this open-air space stands as a testament to the building’s lengthy history, equipped with a well that was installed in the 1600s while the space served as a convent for the Order of Saint Clare.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convent
Noun
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Allied forces have taken Sicily and begun the treacherous push up Italy’s boot, but the advance has stalled near the Abbey of Monte Cassino, a historic monastery planted atop a rocky hill in the Apennine Mountains.—
Catherine Musemeche,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2025
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Constructed initially just outside of Madrid in 1141, this monastery was occupied by Cistercian monks for almost 700 years before becoming storage and stables during the social revolution of the 1800s.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
12 Jan. 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 22 Feb. 2025.
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