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Recent Examples of convent
The Sisters’ convent was filmed at La Purisima Mission in Lompoc, north of Santa Barbara, now a public park.
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Pat Saperstein, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
The origins of Buçaco National Forest date back to 1628, when Carmelite monks built a convent and launched a forest restoration project.
—Anna Mazurek, AFAR Media, 26 Sep. 2025
The three nuns were reportedly told to move out of the convent because, according to a church rule, an order must have at least six living members.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
Since returning to the convent, the nuns have become active on Instagram, amassing more than 10,000 followers in little over a week.
—Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
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Pat Saperstein, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
The origins of Buçaco National Forest date back to 1628, when Carmelite monks built a convent and launched a forest restoration project.
—Anna Mazurek, AFAR Media, 26 Sep. 2025
The three nuns were reportedly told to move out of the convent because, according to a church rule, an order must have at least six living members.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
Since returning to the convent, the nuns have become active on Instagram, amassing more than 10,000 followers in little over a week.
—Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convent
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After more or less abandoning philosophy at the end of the First World War, Ludwig trained to be an elementary-school teacher, spent time as a gardener’s assistant in a monastery, and then taught in small towns in rural Austria.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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The monastery is central to the story, and its elder—named Zosima in the novel—comforts a woman who has lost her child, aged two years and nine months, with words that echo those uttered by Ambrose.—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Despite the morning chill, hundreds of pilgrims were already circling the kora, a two-mile prayer path around the cloister’s walls.—
Chris Schalkx,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Oct. 2025
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Natural light, serene cloisters and Spanish gothic architectural flourishes characterize this memorial space, which is also home to an annual music festival, held annually during the summer solstice called the Garden of Memory.—
Kate Bradshaw,
Mercury News,
18 Sep. 2025
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One was an indictment in the Calendar of Patent Rolls of Edward III, detailing how Ela and her husband, Forde, and several other accomplices raided a Benedictine priory in 1321.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
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The crime–assisting in the raid of a Benedictine priory alongside Sir Fitzpayne.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
6 June 2025
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“Convent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convent. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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