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mosque

[mosk, mawsk] / mɒsk, mɔsk /


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In others she stands outside a mosque while kids play with the bug’s feet and sits in an abandoned movie theater, her tail wrapped around the seats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

I was angry as I stood behind President George W. Bush at a mosque on September 17, 2001.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

The security guard used his radio to put the mosque on alert before he was killed, saving the lives of more than 100 children who were playing in the back of the property, authorities said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

The next day, he told the British detectives, the men had shown up at his local mosque in San Diego saying they needed a place to live.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Everyone is at the mosque, so I slip into the backyard and head to her dad’s hammock.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

Today, though, the 33-year-old historian finds a New York transformed: one with its first Muslim mayor, public prayers in Times Square and new mosques rising across the city.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Agents with their faces covered up to their eyes, in unmarked black SUVs with tinted windows, would wait outside churches, mosques, schools, daycares, courtrooms, and hospitals.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Ms. Smith travels through Bosnia and Kosovo and sees how Mr. Erdoğan’s government has renovated mosques and opened Turkish-language schools there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Turkey's religious affairs directorate mentioned the stand-up show, without naming Göktaş, in its weekly sermon on Friday which is read out in all the country's mosques.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

In the Old City, Baba points out the fine mansions and covered souqs, the ancient caravanserais, the mosques and churches—everything burnt and broken and twisted.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell




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