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Recent Examples of lamasery
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.
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Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 8 July 2019
Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 8 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lamasery
Noun
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Work dried up, and Stamp retreated to an Indian ashram.—
Daniel Ross Goodman,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
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In 1969, Stamp moved to an ashram in India.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
18 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Back in 1775, the grapes grown at the Schloss Johannisberg estate in Germany’s Rheingau region could not be picked until a permit was issued by the cleric leading the abbey, known as the Prince Abbot.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
5 Oct. 2025
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Construction began on the Silverado Canyon abbey in 2018, about 7 miles north of its previous location in Trabuco Canyon after the priests and seminarians outgrew that location.—
Andrea Klick,
Oc Register,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Lamasery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamasery. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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