nun
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“Recursive self-improvement” sounds like what a nun teaching handwriting taught her fourth-grade pupils in 1958.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
TV viewers saw her last in Channel 4's The Falling, starring Keeley Hawes and Paapa Essiedu, about a nun and Catholic priest who fall in love.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
“The word nun was not in my vocabulary,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Sister Boniface is, of course, not just any nun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
“So the priest wanted to take her away,” she said, “and the nun showed him the wrong child? D’you think she just didn’t know herself which was the right one?”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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