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nunnery

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as in convent

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Recent Examples of nunnery All four women are virgins and have joked about calling their home the nunnery. — Skye Battles, Wired News, 17 Apr. 2026 The property was once a 19th-century Catholic school and church campus, complete with a rectory and nunnery, and each room has a rotary phone and other touches of the not-so-distant past. — Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 Apr. 2026 Monasteries and nunneries have long been oases of quiet contemplation in a world overrun by distractions. — Avedis Hadjian, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2026 The Dalai Lama encouraged these organizations to help build nunneries, empower existing nuns and support their further education. — Darcie Price-Wallace, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nunnery

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Rettig, who is 32, also shared her experience on social media earlier this year, getting thousands of views on her posts about living in the convents.

— Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
Concerned about the spooky Los Angeles estate — which served a convent for nuns for half a century — Gerber said her mother, supermodel Cindy Crawford, gave her holy water to take on set.

— Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026

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Nway Oo said that 14 people, including three women, were killed and 20 others were wounded when a fighter jet dropped a bomb in the compound of the village’s monastery.

— Grant Peck, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Rooms The style is monastery chic with the recent restyling raising the stakes considerably adding a new sense of design that was absent before.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2026

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On its edge is the Romanesque church of Pieve di San Leolino, which features a 16th-century cloister and valley views.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026
The town served as a Genoese naval outpost during the medieval rivalry with Pisa, and the hotel’s arched colonnades of the original cloister still stand atop rooms that face Palmaria Island or the Gulf itself.

— Jason Phillips, USA Today, 22 July 2026

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The Abbazia di San Fruttuoso, a 10th-century abbey complex owned for centuries by the Dorias, a powerful Genoa family, dominates the cove setting.

— Catherine Sabino, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Robert de Molesme founded the Cistercian order at an abbey some 20 miles away from Meursault, the small village where the new hotel is located, in 1098.

— Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2026

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