nunnery
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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
Every day, the nunnery receives at least a dozen inquiries about joining the order from places as far as Mexico, Ireland, Germany and the United States.
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2023
Last year’s most unlikely bestseller was “Matrix,” a novel by Lauren Groff about an obscure medieval poet named Marie de France and a 12th-century nunnery.
From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2022
She later founded a nunnery in India focused on giving women in Tibetan Buddhism some of the same opportunities reserved for monks.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2021
As in a nunnery too, there are few mirrors.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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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