convent
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In Melbourne: St. Anne Convent represents Wallbrook, the facility where Tom Cruise’s character picked up his brother, Raymond, played by Dustin Hoffman, in “Rain Man.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
Bishop Montgomery 8, Ramona Convent 2: Macey Kim struck out 17 for the Knights.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025
Susan, then a high school senior at Convent of the Sacred Heart, wrote news releases for the campaign.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 2023
While enrolled at Alton Convent School in Hampshire, England, she sang in the choir, and in her early teens, she listened to disco and dressed like a punk, a look she said was “really unfashionable.”
From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2023
“What about it, kids? Shall I take you to see Chacho? He’s in the hospital at the Convent of Santa Clara.”
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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