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sanctum

[sangk-tuhm] / ˈsæŋk təm /


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We first meet her in her inner sanctum, her extremely girly bedroom in the depths of her extremely girly sorority, Delta Nu.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026

“We stand on the walls, sentinels of the inner sanctum, against the assault of AI slop. The Ontology is based firmly in reality—there is, here, a dialectic between ground truth, tribal knowledge, and enhancements.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

“We stand on the walls, sentinels of the inner sanctum, against the assault of AI slop,” Karp said in his letter to shareholders.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

Visits to the studio sanctum are by invitation only, though.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

My heart still skips a beat when I catch sight of the murti, of God Residing, in the inner sanctum of a temple.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

The perfume, Lavs, is a concentrated version of the one he made to spritz on the papal garments before they were delivered to the Vatican’s inner sancta.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017

Bunhill Fields has long fascinated historians and romantics alike and is considered the terra sancta of English Nonconformity.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2011

On an indifferently argued staff paper he scribbles: "0 sancta sim-plicitas."

From Time Magazine Archive

According to individual taste, one can greet it with a hosannah, a miserere nobis or a sancta simplicitas.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once in the inner sancta, however, he had been treated most courteously, the objects of his calls being impressed with the name of Wynrod no less than with that of Wolcott.

From Thirty by Howard Vincent O'Brien

She allows the camera into the sanctums of her tanning booth and facial treatment sessions, but there’s an exhibitionism in these moments instead of conveying honesty and openness.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2024

And Mickle’s thematic overreach doesn’t obscure the crisp and detailed view he offers us of Apple’s inner sanctums.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022

For a long time, his work was held at a polite distance from the inner sanctums of the art world.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2021

Throughout, she has moved with ease between solitary work and collective activity, between official art world sanctums and improvised actions on the street.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2020

Ever since I had set off by car through the wide golden fields of Orgoreyn four days ago, beginning my successful progress towards the inner sanctums of Mishnory, I had been missing something.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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