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seminary

[sem-uh-ner-ee] / ˈsɛm əˌnɛr i /








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Jackson hesitated — the job required him to leave the seminary six months short of graduation.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

He left before completing seminary, joining the civil rights movement full time.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2026

“I am looking forward to the silence finally stopping, because 54 years of silence is a long time,” said Bishop Kassianos of Aravissos, the abbot of the seminary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

In 2002 he moved to the US with his wife and daughter to study at a seminary in California, where his two sons were born.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

There was a college out West in Ohio that took female students—a real college, not a young ladies’ seminary.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson




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