conventicle

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Noun
  • But Sunday’s remarkable landslide mean the LDP now has enough seats to override votes in the upper house of parliament, to propose amendments to the constitution, and to chair all lower house committees alongside its coalition partner.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
  • When Warren went to pick her up at her parents' house, her brothers, Kevin, Reggie and Wayne, surrounded him.
    Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • On Thursday mornings, my high school’s upper grades gathered in our meetinghouse—a spartan, Italianate-style building whose wooden benches bore the etchings of a century and a half of antsy pencils and fingernails—and, for an hour, sat in near-total silence.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The shooting took place after an argument reportedly broke out during a funeral service at a local meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
    Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • His arms shot down; the Arkestra cut to hush; the hall tremored with complicated silence.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • But right now, she was headed to see a repertory screening of Out of Africa down the hall.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Stafford, who turns 38 on Saturday, worked through a back issue that sidelined him for all of training camp and passed for a league-best 46 touchdowns and 4,707 yards.
    Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Al-Habil, a Hamas cell commander, was killed in the airstrike in Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp, the IDF said in a statement.
    Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 5 Feb. 2026
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“Conventicle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conventicle. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.

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