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Recent Examples of monastery
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.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
The path of Les Feixades is around three miles long and links the Salnitre caves in Collbato with the Montserrat monastery.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
While searching the area around the monastery, researchers climbed some rock formations and found dozens of unfamiliar-looking millipedes with colorful legs, the study said.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
According to regional councilor Massimo Sertori, the 21 nuns residing at the monastery were evacuated safely.
—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
The path of Les Feixades is around three miles long and links the Salnitre caves in Collbato with the Montserrat monastery.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
While searching the area around the monastery, researchers climbed some rock formations and found dozens of unfamiliar-looking millipedes with colorful legs, the study said.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
According to regional councilor Massimo Sertori, the 21 nuns residing at the monastery were evacuated safely.
—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monastery
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Giggles aside, Rita says they were taken to a nursing home against their will two years ago when church authorities shuttered the cloisters as nun numbers diminished.—
Esme Nicholson,
NPR,
4 Nov. 2025
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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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Take in the Gothic splendor of the abbey, where Prince William and Catherine Middleton were married, and where Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin are buried.—
Susanne Fowler,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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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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“Monastery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monastery. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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