seminary
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Khamenei left Mashhad in 1957 to attend seminary in the Shiite holy city of Najaf in Iraq.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026
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
Back at the seminary apartment, I rearranged my thrift-store furniture, testing angles and proximity, trying to calculate how twelve adults might sit without anyone having to balance a plate on their knees.
From Salon • Oct. 14, 2025
I had dreams of becoming a Catholic priest and spent most of my 20s in various forms of conversion therapy in an attempt to prepare for the seminary and to be eligible for application.
From Slate • Oct. 14, 2025
He was straight out of seminary and brimming with new ideas.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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