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Recent Examples of lamasery
His sister is a smart square peg who took off running at the end of Season 3; in the new season, the family is trying to find her, a trip that takes them to a Tibetan lamasery, down South American rivers and onto a Japanese game show.
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Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 8 July 2019
Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 8 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lamasery
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About 90 minutes from Dallas, in a north Texas farming community home to more cows than people, sits an ashram where two Jain monks and documentary filmmakers, Sadhvi Siddhali Shree, 41, and Sadhvi Anubhuti, 42, are on a spiritual journey of a whole other kind.—
Kayla McCormick,
NBC news,
23 Mar. 2025
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An ashram where half of them lived sustained slight damage to one window.—
Deborah Netburn,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2025
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When Kaldi shared the berries with an abbot of a local monastery, the monk ended up wide awake during the evening prayers.—
Marta Zaraska,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2025
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It was also felt in neighboring countries, including Thailand. March 28, 2025 At a Buddhist monastery in Pindaya, about 70 miles from the epicenter, women wailed as the spire atop a century-old golden dome called a stupa toppled over, one of several that were damaged there.—
Sui-Lee Wee,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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The wide open space of the glorious Sistine Chapel, wonderful ornate cloisters and marble staircases needed a flip side to them.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2025
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Christian intellectuals increasingly accepted input from classical and contemporary non-Christian sources, particularly in emerging urban schools, which were beginning to replace monastic cloisters as centers of learning in Europe.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Nov. 2024
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The TikTok post then pivots to Kate's curtsy to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip during her wedding to Prince William in April 2011, again at the abbey followed by Kate and Meghan curtsying to the queen at Sandringham on Christmas Day in 2018.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Andre sourced a 330-year-old stone fireplace from France, which was originally from an abbey that was destroyed during the war.—
Terry Elward,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Lamasery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamasery. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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