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sanctum

noun as in sanctuary

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Initially wary of allowing cameras into the sanctum of the dressing room, Reid says his misgivings soon disappeared.

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Boyce impressed his bosses and was soon cleared to enter the steel-doored fortress called the “black vault,” a classified sanctum where he was exposed to sensitive CIA communications pertaining to America’s network of espionage satellites.

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They listen to Pepsi-branded transistor radios, fence with disc jockey Murray the K, who insinuates himself into their inner sanctum.

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The YouTube edgelords-turned-GOP darlings had made it to the inner sanctum.

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Starring Ralph Fiennes and set within the private inner sanctum of the Vatican, the movie treats the papal balloting like a thriller.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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