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as in school
a place or establishment for teaching and learning
a seminary exclusively for women
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as in center
a place or environment that favors the development of something
some claimed that orphanages were seminaries of sin and petty crime, turning out juvenile delinquents by the score
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Recent Examples of seminary
Catholic seminaries and convents across Vietnam have also expanded in recent years, producing a bumper crop of young priests and nuns.
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Damien Cave, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
The Hill: Religious colleges and seminaries must stand with Harvard.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 29 Apr. 2025
And as media reports have suggested, these madrassas or seminaries had already been vacated earlier.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 May 2025
The first retreat took place at Mount St. Alphonsus, a former seminary in Esopus, N.Y.
—Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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Damien Cave, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
The Hill: Religious colleges and seminaries must stand with Harvard.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 29 Apr. 2025
And as media reports have suggested, these madrassas or seminaries had already been vacated earlier.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 May 2025
The first retreat took place at Mount St. Alphonsus, a former seminary in Esopus, N.Y.
—Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seminary
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The brothers focused on school, worked casual jobs, and graduated college.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
26 June 2025
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McMahon, a Trump administration appointee, launched similar investigations this spring against public schools in Maine and California for having policies that kept schools from outing students to their families.—
Sofi Zeman,
Kansas City Star,
26 June 2025
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Others, such as 18-year-old fellow center back Jordyn Bugg and 21-year-old Lilly Reale, will be playing with Girma for the first time.—
Tamerra Griffin,
New York Times,
26 June 2025
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Wolf, a seven-foot, 250-pound center, spent his first two college seasons at Yale before transferring to Michigan.—
Kels Dayton,
Hartford Courant,
26 June 2025
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Proceeds will support the project’s nursery, which is featured in a new Save LA Cougars video explaining how all the crossing’s native plants, soils and compost have been chosen and nurtured.—
Jeanette Marantos,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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King eventually managed half of the plantings, working with area nurseries on sapling and seed provenance, as NRG ecologists tried to keep pace.—
Robert Sullivan,
Curbed,
9 June 2025
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That’s despite a range of threats facing shorebirds in Florida, from predators and human interference to nest overwash from storms and rising high tides.—
Molly Duerig,
Miami Herald,
28 June 2025
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According to the study authors, while the circular indentations may be tied to the theropod’s attempts at nest building, the scratches are more likely the remains of their ritual dance-offs, in which male dinosaurs dug deep into the sand, slashing their claws and sending spews of dust into the air.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
27 June 2025
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The weekend session could be a make-or-break moment for Trump's party, which has invested much of its political capital on his signature domestic policy plan.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 June 2025
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The weekend session could be a make-or-break moment for Trump’s party, which has invested much of its political capital on his signature domestic policy plan.—
Lisa Mascaro,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2025
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No place on earth draws more fanatics than Penang, the world’s mecca for durian lovers.—
Tom Downey,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 June 2025
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Indianapolis has become a mecca for those activities as the home of the Indy 500 and the Pacers (who came up just short of winning the NBA crown this year).—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
25 June 2025
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“Seminary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seminary. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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