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Recent Examples of nunnery
Despite her infamy, nothing is known about her after 1970, and even rumors that Ōshima tracked her down to a Kansai nunnery are unconfirmed.
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Damon Wise, Deadline, 14 May 2025
Nang Aye Yin, 34, heard news that the nunnery where a relative of his was studying had collapsed.
—Ross Adkin, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025
While Mikhail managed to escape by climbing out a window and taking refuge in a nearby nunnery, the men took his son hostage, and Mikhail was not able to ransom him until several days later.
—Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The ruins of the Iona nunnery were visible from one window of the hall.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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Damon Wise, Deadline, 14 May 2025
Nang Aye Yin, 34, heard news that the nunnery where a relative of his was studying had collapsed.
—Ross Adkin, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025
While Mikhail managed to escape by climbing out a window and taking refuge in a nearby nunnery, the men took his son hostage, and Mikhail was not able to ransom him until several days later.
—Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The ruins of the Iona nunnery were visible from one window of the hall.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nunnery
Noun
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The women find refuge in a convent and, ultimately, in a seaside town where some measure of peace awaits them.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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The backstory The former convent was once home to some of the richest cloistered nuns in South Tyrol.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Near the monastery someone shouting through a bullhorn.—
Chen Yuhong,
The Dial,
3 Feb. 2026
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The purchase included 3,700 acres of Colorado’s most prime land, senior water rights and several monastery buildings.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But the most compelling aspect of these eight episodes, set a year after Industry sold off the Pierpoint bank that once employed most of its characters and scattered them to London’s various elite cloisters, is the sense that money has never really been the point of the show.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2026
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Long, arched hallways lead to the guest rooms, restaurants, castle-like lounge spaces, and even an ancient cloister from the former monastery.—
Hannah Chubb,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Published in 1842, Poe’s story follows Prince Prospero, who retreats with a group of nobles into a fortified abbey as a deadly plague ravages the countryside.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
20 Jan. 2026
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Connolly was the floral artistic director for the Prince and Princess of Wales' April 2011 wedding day and brought in six field maples, two hornbeams and almost 30,000 flowers to decorate the abbey.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Nunnery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nunnery. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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