sanctum
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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,” 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
The cache of documents offer a rare glimpse into the inner sanctum of the Silicon Valley elite, revealing how deals are made and even how they regard one another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
In passing the door of that sanctum some time after, I caught the words—
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
According to individual taste, one can greet it with a hosannah, a miserere nobis or a sancta simplicitas.
From Time Magazine Archive
On an indifferently argued staff paper he scribbles: "0 sancta sim-plicitas."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Victorian era comes to its end and the day of sancta simplicitas is quite ended.
From The Works of Max Beerbohm by Sir Max Beerbohm
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
Schools can either be sanctums of knowledge or cesspools of intolerance.
From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2020
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
Other reasons for refusals: Seniors see their homes as sanctums, and they don’t want strangers invading their privacy.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2017
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
