nunnery
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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
Get me to a nunnery, but I’m weary of presenting filmland’s biggest honor to the kind of movie people rarely want to watch twice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
Every day, the nunnery receives at least a dozen inquiries about joining the order from places as far as Mexico, Ireland, Germany and the United States.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
Last year’s most unlikely bestseller was “Matrix,” a novel by Lauren Groff about an obscure medieval poet named Marie de France and a 12th-century nunnery.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2022
“Then they will tear me to pieces there! My honor sullied, I will be dismissed from court and packed off to a nunnery somewhere, never to marry!”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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
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
“Cultural assimilation is bound to happen, but we have a Tibetan monastery, schools, nunneries and settlements,” said the elected settlement officer of Dharamsala’s Tibetan Settlement Office.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2014
“The Security of the Holy Spirit—they guard nunneries and monasteries and that….So we can’t go in that way.”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing nunnery
"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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