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The latter’s character is a former nun, and Hewson and O’Connor get one of the film’s headiest scenes discussing how people’s belief in God would be affected by the existence of aliens.
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 June 2026
Sister Boniface is, of course, not just any nun.
—Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
Sylvie and Suzanna lock into a stalemate on the subject until Sylvie finally permits a nun named Sister Claudine to shuttle the girl between Manhattan and Hillcrest.
—Julius Taranto, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
Like the nun Beate before her, Susanna seems destined, as punishment for her overwhelming ardor, to be walled into the convent.
—Caroline Lillian Schopp, Artforum, 13 May 2026
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 June 2026
Sister Boniface is, of course, not just any nun.
—Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
Sylvie and Suzanna lock into a stalemate on the subject until Sylvie finally permits a nun named Sister Claudine to shuttle the girl between Manhattan and Hillcrest.
—Julius Taranto, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
Like the nun Beate before her, Susanna seems destined, as punishment for her overwhelming ardor, to be walled into the convent.
—Caroline Lillian Schopp, Artforum, 13 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nun
Noun
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Hildegard was a Catholic abbess of the Benedictine Order.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The car then hit Phommasan and one other monk.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Dec. 2025
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There, he is expected to pray at the tomb of Charbel Makhlouf, a monk known for bringing people of different faiths together.—
Billy Stockwell,
CNN Money,
30 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Marie, who becomes the prioress of the abbey at 17, begins a rise to power — or as much power as a woman is permitted — using her fellow nuns to fight off political and violent incursions.—
Mark Athitakis,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Feb. 2026
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Matrix by Lauren Groff Currents of violence and devotion coalesce around Marie de France, a 17-year-old sent to be the new prioress of a 12th-century English abbey.—
Mia Barzilay Freund,
Vogue,
7 July 2025
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The names were conferred by Natalie Washington-Weik, a Yorùbá-Orisa Ọ̀ṣun priestess, a spiritual leader in a West African tradition and an African historian.—
Joanna Gilmore,
The Conversation,
29 Oct. 2025
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The story begins in 1915 with the death of Julia Brown, who was a voodoo priestess in her town of Finner, which no longer exists today.—
Emilee Coblentz,
Outside,
16 Oct. 2025
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Where to Go Assisi, the birthplace of Saint Francis, an iconic Italian friar and the founder of the Franciscan Order, is a great place to start your Umbrian adventure.—
Matteo Della Grazia,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Nov. 2025
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There once lived an Italian friar named Joseph, an almost exact contemporary of Descartes.—
Christian Wiman,
Harpers Magazine,
23 Nov. 2025
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As someone who identified as an AI novice before working with her executive coach, Hagerman also shared that prompt engineering was a key skill to pick up.—
Aman Kidwai,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Dec. 2025
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Last year, Joshua took on another boxing novice in former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou, a man known for his toughness and destructive power in the octagon.—
Sarah Shephard,
New York Times,
19 Nov. 2025
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Rodgers led Reading with four goals, followed by freshman sister Madeline Rodgers with two goals and three assists.—
Matt Goisman,
Boston Herald,
11 June 2026
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Popular with Laguna Beach and LA locals for a quick staycation, the property also draws a loyal set of Montage brand devotees who’ve stayed at one of the sister properties in South Carolina, Deer Valley, or Los Cabos.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 June 2026
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Then in 1964, Parks became a deaconess in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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Born in a homestead just north of the D.C. border in 1930 and 1933, the brothers were raised in historic St. Phillips Baptist Church, where their father was an associate minister and their mother a deaconess.—
Petula Dvorak,
Washington Post,
8 Feb. 2024
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“Nun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nun. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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