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as in school
a place or establishment for teaching and learning
a seminary exclusively for women
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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
Most of them reside and run seminaries in the holy cities of Qom in Iran and Najaf in Iraq.
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Eric Lob, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2026
Arafi serves on both the Guardian Council and the Assembly of Experts and has spent years overseeing Iran's influential network of seminaries in Qom.
—Imtiaz Tyab, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
The seminary sold an 140-unit complex to the city of Fort Worth in 2023 for $11 million.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Feb. 2026
Just three courses short of finishing his studies at the seminary, Jackson dropped out to pursue a full-time career in civil rights.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 17 Feb. 2026
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Eric Lob, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2026
Arafi serves on both the Guardian Council and the Assembly of Experts and has spent years overseeing Iran's influential network of seminaries in Qom.
—Imtiaz Tyab, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
The seminary sold an 140-unit complex to the city of Fort Worth in 2023 for $11 million.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Feb. 2026
Just three courses short of finishing his studies at the seminary, Jackson dropped out to pursue a full-time career in civil rights.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 17 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seminary
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Officials haven't been able to assess the destruction fully but the cost of the storm could top $1 billion, including damage to airports, schools, roads, people's homes and a Maui hospital in Kula, Green said.—
Matt Gutman,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Angie is class president, has won a full scholarship to college, stars in the school musicals, has two jobs; no drugs, alcohol or smoking.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Mercury News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Texas had subbed 7-foot center Matas Vokietaitis out of the game with 11 seconds left after Boilermakers big man Oscar Cluff had fouled out, giving Purdue a better opportunity in the paint.—
Janie McCauley,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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The Gators now await NBA decisions from Condon, small forward Thomas Haugh and center Rueben Chinyelu, three juniors who formed one of the nation’s top frontcourts alongside with 7-foot-1 senior reserve Micah Handlogten.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2026
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In the home’s present configuration, one of the bedrooms is outfitted as a gym with a wet bar, while another bedroom is set up as an en suite nursery.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
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At the beginning of her music video, Latto shows off her baby bump, a nursery, and includes home videos from her childhood.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
20 Mar. 2026
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South Florida parks are aflutter with all kinds of feathery vertebrates building nests.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Mar. 2026
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During a remodel in the 1990s, nests were removed from overhangs and the swallows did not return to the mission.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
21 Mar. 2026
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An open-air concert in the middle of a capital city inverts all of that.—
Yook JiHun,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
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The thousands of blooming cherry trees that adorn the nation's capital have burst into ephemeral blossoms, the arrival of which marks the unofficial beginning of Washington's tourist season.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Mar. 2026
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The tech mecca has slowly begun to emerge from one of the country’s deepest declines in downtown retail, in part through a program that peppered the city with subsidized pop-up shops.—
Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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Each January, that stillness is interrupted by the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, transforming a quiet alpine town, Davos, into a mecca of power.—
Victoria Bousis,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Seminary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seminary. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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