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nunnery

[nuhn-uh-ree] / ˈnʌn ə ri /


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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

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

She called it a “happy coincidence” that the pieces — two armchairs and a pouf — will be presented in an abandoned nunnery, under a portrait of a former pope.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022

My Aunt Libby's husband had made a joke once, about a nun that a nunnery sent to Teresa for a checkup.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath




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