minster

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Noun
  • Visitors can explore centuries-old cathedrals, enjoy Tex-Mex cuisine influenced by Spanish flavors, and immerse themselves in a cultural landscape rich with history and tradition.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The climber was intercepted by authorities upon his rough landing in the square in front of the cathedral, and the incident has embarrassed the cathedral’s caretakers, who had put in place a new security system and thermal cameras as part of the recent renovation.
    The Editors of ARTnews, ARTnews.com, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The community also includes a community/conference center, a chapel, walking trails and commercial space.
    Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The very last piece in the school’s master plan is a new chapel, planned for an empty lot on the edge of the King’s Quad.
    Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Critics pointed to his role in the dissolution of the monasteries, an initiative of the English Reformation that saw most of the kingdom’s abbeys and priories shut down, their art and relics destroyed and their wealth diverted to fill the king’s coffers.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Today, the ancient scriptorium is home to the abbey’s museum and open to visitors along with the monastery’s Renaissance-style basilica and main cloister.
    Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Last Thursday, parts of the shrine started to go back to Canada following a repatriation ceremony in New York.
    Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The city is also often visited for its temples, shrines, palaces and other historical structures.
    Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The mission will also mark the first time that crews have used an X-ray machine on humans in orbit.
    Julian Dossett, Space.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The institute's mission is to promote conflict resolution and the prevention of conflict across the globe.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Director Kim Hyung-jun, who previously directed the political comedy My Fellow Citizens, opens the drama with an engagingly moody scene set in an empty Buddhist temple.
    Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Traditionally they are found in temples, but some are hung at home.
    Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Under Healey the state is spending billions of taxpayer dollars for the caring of the influx of immigrants from around the world who have sought sanctuary, or refuge, in the state.
    Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 31 Mar. 2025
  • During the last century, as wars raged on the surface of the Earth, space was seen as something of a sanctuary – a safe haven free of conflict.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Minster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minster. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.

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