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cloister

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In the intervening years, Anderson, who is 95, has plumbed the cloistered world of clock collectors.

Yet his work has never stayed cloistered within academia.

From Salon

Unlike Parolin, he has decades of pastoral experience – meaning he has been an active Church leader among the people as opposed to a diplomat for the Vatican or cloistered expert on Church law.

From BBC

The single storey building consists of five separate interconnecting buildings which are located around a cloistered courtyard and communal and administration areas.

From BBC

The assured magnate, the superficial wife, the doted-upon child who was raised so cloistered he whistles canary songs to a tank of crawdads and tries to teach pet tricks to a fish.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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