synagogue

variants also synagog

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Recent Examples of synagogue But stay away from our synagogues, our schools, and our community centers. Brian Strauss, Time, 30 July 2025 Months of furious campaigning had culminated in a frenetic weekend — an endless blur of rallies, fairs, parades, synagogues, and churches. Jonathan Mahler, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2025 An Orthodox man was shot in the shoulder while walking to synagogue on Shabbat. Debra Silverstein, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2025 Litvak ended up interviewing the synagogue’s rabbi, Yisroel Goldstein, who lost a finger in the attack, but not his faith. Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for synagogue
Recent Examples of Synonyms for synagogue
Noun
  • The mosque had been struggling to afford rising electricity prices to keep fans going in the country's longer and more frequent heat waves, so community members pooled money to buy a rooftop solar system.
    Betsy Joles, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
  • After years of monitoring a mosque known as the Islamic Center, AJC assisted the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Hamburg in shutting down the mosque for its ties to terrorist organizations, thus violating the German constitution.
    Susan Greene Pallot, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The caretaking and preservation of these dying congregations is just another aspect of the invisible labor taken on by a generation of women whose work in the home and the shul—caring for children, husbands, family members—was always taken for granted.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
  • Halfway across the city, around the time that Stein was expelled from religious shul in Brooklyn, Weinstein was struggling with his own trans identity, living on the Upper West Side among a dynastic family of his own.
    Leah Abrams, Them., 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • It was shaped in kitchens, temples, street corners, songs.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • An outdoor sign for a Hindu temple in Greenwood was vandalized overnight Aug. 10, a spokesperson for BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir confirmed to IndyStar.
    Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • On an excursion to a site known as the Twin Mountains, my guide Tek Leng explained the horrific history of this place, today a peaceful park filled with pagodas and Buddha statues.
    David Swanson, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2025
  • The park was constructed in 1983 for a garden exhibition and still contains gorgeous rose gardens, a pagoda surrounded by Asian gardens, and several ponds and water features.
    Emily Manthei, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2025
Noun
  • Renovation plans to this tabernacle feature a mental wellness center and a workout room.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2025
  • Miller also noted that the original tabernacle of the church survived, along with 17th-century lead coffins that visitors can view under a glass floor.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2025

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