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
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
Ms. Lhamo yelled at the knocked-down nun, looking straight into her eyes outside a whitewashed temple in the Druk Amitabha nunnery on a hill overlooking Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
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
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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