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Recent Examples of convent
Decades ago, the site was a convent.
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Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
Tucked away on a quiet street in Oakland is a former convent where the Academy of Healing Opportunities and Personal Enrichment, or HOPE, now resides.
—Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
Hotel Peter and Paul Set in architecturally rich Faubourg Marigny, the 71-room Hotel Peter and Paul occupies a former church, rectory, schoolhouse, and convent that dates back to the late 1800s.
—AFAR Media, 30 Dec. 2025
Housed in a former convent, luxe Villa Paola has tranquil gardens and its own beach club.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2025
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Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
Tucked away on a quiet street in Oakland is a former convent where the Academy of Healing Opportunities and Personal Enrichment, or HOPE, now resides.
—Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
Hotel Peter and Paul Set in architecturally rich Faubourg Marigny, the 71-room Hotel Peter and Paul occupies a former church, rectory, schoolhouse, and convent that dates back to the late 1800s.
—AFAR Media, 30 Dec. 2025
Housed in a former convent, luxe Villa Paola has tranquil gardens and its own beach club.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convent
Noun
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Beyond those fragrant fillings was a rich history of the monastery dating to the 10th century.—
Marlise Kast-Myers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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In 1924, a group of Dominican nuns founded the monastery.—
Andrew Khouri,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Today, visitors come to Museo di San Marco to see the frescoes and panels by Fra Angelico, as well as its courtyard, cloisters, palazzo, and garden.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Feb. 2026
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But the most compelling aspect of these eight episodes, set a year after Industry sold off the Pierpoint bank that once employed most of its characters and scattered them to London’s various elite cloisters, is the sense that money has never really been the point of the show.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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One was an indictment in the Calendar of Patent Rolls of Edward III, detailing how Ela and her husband, Forde, and several other accomplices raided a Benedictine priory in 1321.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
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The crime–assisting in the raid of a Benedictine priory alongside Sir Fitzpayne.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
6 June 2025
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“Convent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convent. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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