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convent

[kon-vent, -vuhnt] / ˈkɒn vɛnt, -vənt /


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Those nuns continued to live in the same convent, worship in the same chapel, and receive Communion side by side.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

He grew up in Kolkata, moving between a convent school and a prestigious Jesuit boys' school where he first discovered music while cleaning instruments in the music room.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

In Rome, they founded the convent of Santa Maria del Popolo at one of the city's main entrances, with trees and gardens nearby.

From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2026

Seasonal purists could just download the dozen or so Christmas episodes of this long-running and still-exceptional drama about a group of midwives working out of a convent in London’s East End.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

Dad reached over and picked up his convent catalogues, but he couldn’t put any enthusiasm into them, and he finally tossed them down again.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey




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