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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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as in monastery
a residence for men under religious vows monks in that hermitage take a vow of silence

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Recent Examples of hermitage Pico Iyer makes time for retreats at a Benedictine hermitage in California. Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025 When Iyer’s wife accompanies him on a visit to the hermitage, the monks greet her warmly. Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025 Aflame, by Pico Iyer Travel writer and spiritual thinker Pico Iyer has spent time at a Benedictine hermitage in California, a seemingly idyllic setting. Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2025 An excavation in Lincolnshire revealed what appears to be a sacred site Archaeologists digging through a field in Lincolnshire, England, may have found a 1,300-year-old hermitage on the site of a much more ancient henge. Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hermitage
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Noun
  • While Pakistani security forces frequently target TTP hideouts in the restive northwest and elsewhere, such operations in Kashmir are rare.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2025
  • Sipping sundowners at the glamorous beach clubs that propagate the sandy shores and cliffside hideouts along the French Riviera really shouldn’t take much convincing, but with so many charming seaside cities and villages to explore, deciding where to stay can be a challenge.
    Monica Mendal, Vogue, 8 June 2025
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  • Jeff Bezos was set to celebrate his lavish wedding to Lauren Sánchez at the Fondazione Cini, a cultural institution on the island which occupies a large part of a Benedictine monastery established there in 982 A.D.
    Max Norman, New Yorker, 27 June 2025
  • But other outlets, including CNN and The Hollywood Reporter, report that the couple may get married on the private island of San Giorgio Maggiore, specifically in a monastery there.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 23 June 2025
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  • The group follows Amelia into a secret lair in Silicon Valley where the '80s motherboard is locked away.
    Keith Langston, People.com, 28 June 2025
  • Thanks to an incessant stream of sensational newspaper articles and a nonstop rumor mill, the public had the idea of Hollywood as a lair of iniquity and debasement.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025
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  • The wedding festivities kicked off on Thursday, June 27, with a welcome party, held in a closed cloister adjacent to the Madonna dell'Orto church.
    Erin Clack, People.com, 29 June 2025
  • According to People, the couple hosted a welcome party for their guests in a closed cloister adjacent to the Madonna dell'Orto church Thursday night.
    Janelle Ash , Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
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  • That’s despite a range of threats facing shorebirds in Florida, from predators and human interference to nest overwash from storms and rising high tides.
    Molly Duerig, Miami Herald, 28 June 2025
  • According to the study authors, while the circular indentations may be tied to the theropod’s attempts at nest building, the scratches are more likely the remains of their ritual dance-offs, in which male dinosaurs dug deep into the sand, slashing their claws and sending spews of dust into the air.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2025

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“Hermitage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermitage. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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