monk
Example Sentences
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He trekked to China to meditate with monks at a Shaolin temple.
For the rest of 2023, they “lived like monks,” resisting outside hires and focused maniacally on building a user-friendly tool.
Season 1’s subjects ranged from Francis of Assisi to Moses the Black, a robber turned monk and martyr in the fourth century.
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati discovered that monk parakeets meeting unfamiliar birds tend to "test the waters" before deciding whether a potential partner is safe to approach.
From Science Daily
The cells offer an experience quite distinct from any museum, allowing viewers to physically and imaginatively put themselves in the place of the 15th-century monks who lived and worshipped there.
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