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
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 eventually made her way to the nunnery and never returned.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
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
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
“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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Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 2
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