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as in hideout
a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others
the artist's desert hermitage was a small adobe house at the end of a long dusty road
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Recent Examples of hermitage
The excavation began in February 2025, in anticipation of future housing development near a modern-day hermitage, according to a statement from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP).
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
The Abbey of Saint Gall, originally a hermitage south of Lake Constance, was founded by one of his companions, Saint Gall (or Gallus).
—Bernd Roeck
june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
The life that Iyer brings to the hermitage has troubles, too.
—Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025
Color options include black, dreamy pink, tourmaline, buttercup yellow, hermitage, and latte white.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
The Abbey of Saint Gall, originally a hermitage south of Lake Constance, was founded by one of his companions, Saint Gall (or Gallus).
—Bernd Roeck
june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
The life that Iyer brings to the hermitage has troubles, too.
—Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025
Color options include black, dreamy pink, tourmaline, buttercup yellow, hermitage, and latte white.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
See All Example Sentences for hermitage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermitage
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Ecuador’s defense ministry said forces destroyed a hideout for a Border Command leader and also a training area with capacity for up to 50 drug traffickers.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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There was no immediate comment from Pakistan, which repeatedly has said its military only targets Afghan posts and militant hideouts.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Mar. 2026
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One of the most popular hikes—the Vikos Gorge—journeys through one of the deepest gorges, winding along quiet villages and monasteries.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
23 Mar. 2026
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The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco, 1980 Set in a 14th-century Italian monastery, this is a wonderfully complex murder mystery.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
20 Mar. 2026
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Both are one-night-in-hell slashers about two estranged sisters forced to fight their way out of a lair of rich people who’ve joined a devil cult and are hellbent on sacrificing them to their dark lord.—
Jada Yuan,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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The film – without giving much away – is about a young woman fighting for her life after accidentally landing in a Satanic cult's lair.—
David Oliver,
USA Today,
18 Mar. 2026
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Located just east of the Main Quad, Ida Noyes Hall is the home of Doc Films' Max Palevsky Cinema, the campus Pub for over-21 crowd, an array of offices and event spaces, and an architecturally striking staircase and cloister.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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There are still 20 friars who live in the convent around the cloister carrying out their duties.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
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South Florida parks are aflutter with all kinds of feathery vertebrates building nests.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Mar. 2026
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During a remodel in the 1990s, nests were removed from overhangs and the swallows did not return to the mission.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Hermitage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermitage. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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