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An ashram where half of them lived sustained slight damage to one window.
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Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
His group has ashrams across 10 states and union territories in India and claims to have 60 million followers worldwide.
—Rhea Mogul, CNN, 12 July 2024
Dlamini, 27, was born in Los Angeles and spent time as a child with her mother at an ashram led by jazz musician Alice Coltrane.
—Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2023
The Sullivanians adhered to the same principles and traditions as many of the ashrams and rural intentional communities of the era: polyamory, communal living, group parenting, socialist politics.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023
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Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
His group has ashrams across 10 states and union territories in India and claims to have 60 million followers worldwide.
—Rhea Mogul, CNN, 12 July 2024
Dlamini, 27, was born in Los Angeles and spent time as a child with her mother at an ashram led by jazz musician Alice Coltrane.
—Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2023
The Sullivanians adhered to the same principles and traditions as many of the ashrams and rural intentional communities of the era: polyamory, communal living, group parenting, socialist politics.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ashram
Noun
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Matcha soon spread through Zen monasteries, where it was believed to generate greater enlightenment than long hours of meditation.—
The Conversation,
The Conversation,
7 Jan. 2026
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Long, arched hallways lead to the guest rooms, restaurants, castle-like lounge spaces, and even an ancient cloister from the former monastery.—
Hannah Chubb,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 Jan. 2026
Noun
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His sister is a smart square peg who took off running at the end of Season 3; in the new season, the family is trying to find her, a trip that takes them to a Tibetan lamasery, down South American rivers and onto a Japanese game show.—
Robert Lloyd,
latimes.com,
8 July 2019
Noun
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But the most compelling aspect of these eight episodes, set a year after Industry sold off the Pierpoint bank that once employed most of its characters and scattered them to London’s various elite cloisters, is the sense that money has never really been the point of the show.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2026
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Long, arched hallways lead to the guest rooms, restaurants, castle-like lounge spaces, and even an ancient cloister from the former monastery.—
Hannah Chubb,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Pilgrims are drawn to the ancient abbey to honor the legacy of Edward the Confessor, whose Shrine is at the heart of the abbey, and the Henry VII Lady Chapel is the burial site of 15 Kings and Queens, including Elizabeth I, Mary I and Mary Queen of Scots.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
23 Dec. 2025
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Before the church authorities moved the nuns into care almost two years ago, the local abbey and Archdiocese of Salzburg acquired the convent.—
Esme Nicholson,
NPR,
1 Dec. 2025
Noun
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How to prepare before strong winds approach Trim tree branches away from your house and power lines.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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Video from the fire department showed crews pouring water on the house fire at 110th and State on Tuesday morning.—
Jermont Terry,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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That idea came alive on my favorite day of hiking, ascending through the Val di Chiana—a valley carpeted in red poppies, sunflowers, and sweetgrass—toward the 13th-century hermitage of Celle di San Francesco, where St. Francis is said to have written his last will and testament.—
Hannah Howard,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Nov. 2025
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That is, until Nile moves in next door, disrupting Aggie’s upstate New York hermitage.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
13 Nov. 2025
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“Ashram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ashram. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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