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
The sect’s nuns were first introduced to martial arts in 2008 by followers from Vietnam, who had come to the nunnery to learn scriptures and how to play the instruments used during prayers.
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
And on Port Meadow at the full moon there’s a werewolf that comes out from the old nunnery at Godstow.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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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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