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cathedral

[kuh-thee-druhl] / kəˈθi drəl /


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Høiby, who is under house arrest pending appeal, was granted permission to attend the funeral, and sat in the second row during the cathedral ceremony alongside Märtha Louise's children.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

A poignant moment as three bell tolls marking the end of a minute's silence in the cathedral was briefly interrupted by a mobile phone alarm going off.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

She summed up her comparison this way: “If you remove the frame of the cathedral, those stained glass windows shatter. They’re useless.”

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

That night, I had dinner in a garden and walked back past the cathedral, enormous and silent in the dark.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

On the outside this place looks more like a cathedral than a school.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

I preferred the big cities—Pamplona, Logroño, Burgos, León—where I could limp into the town square and reward myself with museums, cathedrals, mushroom pinxtos or paella that could feed 35 people.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

We would be sipping ice-cold spritzes at cafés overlooking the Mediterranean, frolicking down cobblestone streets lined with charming boutiques, and marveling at the frescoes and marble sculptures adorning grand cathedrals.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

What is happening at Rochester mirrors a broader reckoning happening across churches, cathedrals and the Church of England.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

“What an incredible opportunity to elevate the sport in a city where you have one of the great cathedrals of the sport,” Wasserman told The Times last year.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 12, 2026

Today’s behavior is no more fixed than when we tumbled out over Europe to build cathedrals in the twelfth century.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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