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meetinghouse

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as in house

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Recent Examples of meetinghouse Two people were killed, and six others were injured in a shooting outside a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Wednesday night. — Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2026 The gunfire erupted in the parking lot of the Rose Park 5th Ward meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where mourners had gathered for a memorial service Wednesday night, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026 The shooting took place in the parking lot of a meetinghouse of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church. — Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026 There was a separate service Tuesday evening at LDS’ Flint meetinghouse with David Bednar, a senior leader in the LDS Church who’s part of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said Gary Geiger, a LDS member in metro Detroit who is a spokesman for the church in Michigan. — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for meetinghouse

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Noun

The country's upper house of parliament voted last month to require UBS to hold 90% of Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital, or about $16 billion in extra shares, as collateral to support its foreign subsidiaries.

— Hugh Leask, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2026
The stranger’s dress had been stored in the family’s house for more than a decade.

— Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026

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In a 1982 interview, Dzubas described becoming obsessed with the possibility of filling a chapel with his black drawings.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Not long ago, she and Peter Koskey got married, with the unfinished house as their wedding chapel.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of chapel

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And the scant records around the outrageous boondoggle that poured more than $1 billion into a hellhole immigrant-detention camp in the Everglades point to him as the key engineer.

— Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026
May and Spoelstra developed a friendship during May’s time in Boca Raton, with the Heat holding several training camps at FAU while May was coaching there.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026

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And around the world, wars and religious persecution have destroyed prayer books, Bibles, Qurans, Torah scrolls, statues, iconography, shrines, relics and many other materials considered venerable.

— Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
Marfa is also home to the Judd Foundation, which maintains a spectacular shrine of buildings spread through the center of town.

— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of shrine

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At an event held at a West Sacramento wedding banquet hall earlier this month, Hilton tore into his rival.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026
The number of empty seats in the conference hall this week will help observers gauge how widespread Xi's purges have been.

— KANIS LEUNG, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of hall

Noun

Students from Illinois high schools including Shepard, Stagg and Andrew, participate in a Senior All-Stars of Music program at a cathedral during a trip to Europe.

— Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
San Telmo’s historic atmosphere and renowned vintage shopping scene will keep your itinerary packed, while Montserrat’s proximity to landmarks (like the cathedral and cabildo) is ideal.

— Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of cathedral

Noun

Unfortunately, the device malfunctioned while en route to the observatory, forcing mission engineers to abandon the attempt and leave Swift to its fate.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2026
Notably, the plan (for now, at least) omits a mission similar to Apollo 8 or Artemis II, which involved a crew flying out to the Moon and either entering orbit or passing close by before returning to Earth.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of mission

Noun

His decision to buy the abbey was one that came of familiarity.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
The medieval abbey of Normandy’s Mont Saint-Michel, a tidal island only accessible at certain times each day, stretched from the lapping waves as though reaching for Heaven.

— Ellen O’Connell Whittet, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026

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