nunnery

I’m mostly living the self-fulfilling prophecy of the nunnery, though I have recently made a Bumble profile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Meanwhile Philippa, knowing that “visionaries are ungovernable,” fears that Barton’s presence in her nunnery portends catastrophe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

She later founded a nunnery in India focused on giving women in Tibetan Buddhism some of the opportunities reserved for monks.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2024

The sect’s nuns were first introduced to martial arts in 2008 by followers from Vietnam, who had come to the nunnery to learn scriptures and how to play the instruments used during prayers.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023

As in a nunnery too, there are few mirrors.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

They have blazed a path of progress in recent decades for Buddhist women — from education through advanced degrees and the creation of nunneries to seeking full ordination.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

A group of crows is a murder; pandas, an embarrassment; nuns, a superfluity — a term that dates to the Middle Ages, when nunneries were overcrowded, lice-ridden and destitute.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2021

In places where touch is expressly forbidden – schools, nunneries, consulting rooms – any brushing of skin speaks volumes.

From The Guardian ● May 22, 2020

Alison Brie: Yes, and we read books on nuns and nunneries and medieval times to prepare for this film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2017

“They en’t CCD. They’re called summing like the Security of the Holy Spirit, summing like that. They guard religious places—seminaries, nunneries, schools, that sort of place. They prob’ly come from Wallingford, from the priory there.”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman