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Saudi Arabia is the cradle of the austere Sunni doctrine known as Wahhabism, which embraces a strict interpretation of Islamic law.

The music, most of it from the early 17th century, is more austere, demanding concentration and contemplation.

Sandee Althouse walked into a Silver Lake gift shop dressed in an almost austere, simple black dress, her curly black hair graying at the temples.

The victory he cites, as documented even by the austere Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2021, was only over a bad, propagandistic forecast that was never rooted in the science in the first place.

Major League Baseball hired an austere federal judge, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, as its commissioner and gave him unchecked authority to clean up the game.