bethel

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Noun
  • The chapel’s first floor served as a one-room school for much of the late 1800s and early 1900s.
    Lily Carey, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2026
  • So are her businesses, including a local wedding chapel that was completely destroyed by the fire.
    Ryan Brennan April 24, Charlotte Observer, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Altman pitched the conversion as critical to securing the vast amount of funding OpenAI needs to fulfill its mission of creating artificial general intelligence — or AGI — that will benefit humanity.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The case centers on Musk’s claim that OpenAI, Altman and Microsoft betrayed OpenAI's original mission as a nonprofit to benefit humanity by forming a for-profit entity in March 2019, 13 months after Musk left the OpenAI board.
    Deepa Seetharaman, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Depending on the season (the camp opens from May through December, when temperatures are pleasant), days fill with picnics in the mountains, visits to Buddhist festivals, or merit-making ceremonies at nearby temples and shrines.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
  • He was canonized by Pope Alexander III in 1161, and his shrine at Westminster Abbey became a major pilgrimage site in medieval England.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Crowds of well wishers waved as the newlyweds rode in an open carriage from the abbey to Buckingham Palace after the ceremony.
    Jack Guy, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Nestled between Lyon and Grenoble in southeastern France, Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye is famed for its Gothic abbey, cobblestone streets, and centuries-old stone houses.
    Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Worshipers mark the day by visiting holy sites and temples, the giving of alms and practicing mindfulness and spiritual purity, as noted by the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 1 May 2026
  • The upscale fast-casual culinary temple from Gwyneth Paltrow and Kim Floresca, her VP of Culinary, debuted in Los Angeles in 2021.
    Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The area Brilliantly located in the old town with two of the city’s biggest attractions—the Unesco World Heritage cathedral and Real Alcázar—a 15-minute stroll south.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The whole thing feels more like a seaside sanctuary for people who’ve outgrown the noise.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The results leave St Pauli in 16th and in the relative sanctuary of the play-off place, with Wolfsburg one point behind and Heidenheim still bottom, four points further back.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In the corner of one of Amsterdam's most elegant 17th-century canal houses, a cheetah leaps from an antique tabernacle.
    Karen Burshtein, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Vandals broke into a Catholic school in Long Beach overnight Monday, stealing church items, damaging statues and tossing the tabernacle to the ground, according to police and school officials.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
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“Bethel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bethel. Accessed 3 May. 2026.

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