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Recent Examples of yeshiva
Both girls attended Bnos Malka Academy, an all-girls yeshiva in Forest Hills about two and a half miles from the family’s Kew Gardens Hill home.
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David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
On June 30, 2014, the bodies of three yeshiva boys kidnapped by Hamas were discovered — and a 50-day war followed.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 2 July 2025
Simmons was a Hasidic Orthodox Jew from Israel who found a new faith one fateful day while exiting the yeshiva.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 5 June 2025
His ultra-Orthodox allies wanted the reform to prevent the drafting of thousands of yeshiva students, who have long been exempt from military service.
—Ilan Z. Baron, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
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David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
On June 30, 2014, the bodies of three yeshiva boys kidnapped by Hamas were discovered — and a 50-day war followed.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 2 July 2025
Simmons was a Hasidic Orthodox Jew from Israel who found a new faith one fateful day while exiting the yeshiva.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 5 June 2025
His ultra-Orthodox allies wanted the reform to prevent the drafting of thousands of yeshiva students, who have long been exempt from military service.
—Ilan Z. Baron, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yeshiva
Noun
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After his mother’s death, he was sent to study Urdu and Islamic calligraphy at his grandfather’s madrassa in Sidhpur, Gujarat.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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The piece filled both a madrasa and a caravanserai, placing ancient craft next to modern technology.—
Dada Jovanovic,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2025
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In addition to emptying a reserves fund and borrowing from a retiree health fund, district electeds agreed to reduce staffing, merge two middle schools, and end the kindergarten through eighth grade model, according to a Fiscal Solvency Plan trustees adopted Wednesday.—
Sierra Lopez,
Mercury News,
15 Feb. 2026
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People at the scene pleaded with the agents to allow the five-year-old to go with authorized staff from Columbia Heights schools, where Liam attended pre-kindergarten classes.—
Alessandra Schade,
Time,
14 Feb. 2026
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Thousands of kids from neighborhoods zoned to chronically underperforming district schools sit on charter school wait lists.—
Darius Jones,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2026
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Several other schools and districts in Texas also canceled or changed plans, as well as a charter school in Arizona, according to Facebook announcements posted by the schools.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Feb. 2026
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The days when his wife, who entered the US illegally 26 years ago and has started the process of applying for a green card, would attend Bible study, go grocery shopping and drop off or pick up their children from school feel long gone, the father and husband said.—
Alisha Ebrahimji,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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Hubbard broke the school record for career three-pointers made by sinking four at Ole Miss.—
Tom Murphy,
Arkansas Online,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Yeshiva.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yeshiva. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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