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Recent Examples of meetinghouse
Next, follow the map down Centre Street to the African Meeting House, one of the nation’s few surviving 19th-century Black meetinghouses.
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New York Times, 31 July 2025
Boards are being cut The museum is rebuilding the 1805 meetinghouse at its original site and will use common wood species from the time: pine, poplar and oak, said Matthew Webster, the museum’s executive director of architectural preservation and research.
—Ben Finley, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
The Society of Friends was the first religion to officially condemn that horror, but some meetinghouses—which are known for having benches arranged in egalitarian formations—featured segregated seating for Black members.
—Gail Cornwall, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2025
Lord John discovered that Jane was being held in a nearby meetinghouse.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
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New York Times, 31 July 2025
Boards are being cut The museum is rebuilding the 1805 meetinghouse at its original site and will use common wood species from the time: pine, poplar and oak, said Matthew Webster, the museum’s executive director of architectural preservation and research.
—Ben Finley, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
The Society of Friends was the first religion to officially condemn that horror, but some meetinghouses—which are known for having benches arranged in egalitarian formations—featured segregated seating for Black members.
—Gail Cornwall, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2025
Lord John discovered that Jane was being held in a nearby meetinghouse.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for meetinghouse
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In the last fortnight alone, Starmer's Deputy Prime Minister and close ally Angela Rayner has resigned after a house tax scandal, triggering a major cabinet reshuffle.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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The weighty Guerlain Rouge G case comes in a wide variety of fabrics, colors, and textures—glossy tortoiseshell, embossed gold, glittering crystals—that house one of the most luxurious lipstick formulas on the market.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The arrival ceremony is followed by a private luncheon, a chapel visit, and a musical performance.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Sep. 2025
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The Trumps will get a tour of the chapel and a performance from its choir before Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife join the two couples alongside British and American military families.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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The greenroom at Largo is a small shrine to great talent.—
Adrienne LaFrance,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 2025
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Excavations at the site have uncovered temples, elite residences, and a shrine to Wadjet, the cobra goddess of Lower Egypt.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
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The cathedral smells strongly of myrrh oil from Jerusalem.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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Owner Caroline Tchekhoff brought a wellness space into the hotel, then used it as a springboard to launch community yoga classes held in the adjacent plaza, facing Cartagena’s centuries-old cathedral.—
Carley Rojas Ávila,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Sagapolutele won the job in fall camp and became the Golden Bears’ first true freshman starting quarterback since Jared Goff in 2013.—
Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
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These camps offer users flight experience, operational services.—
Robert Birsel
Shane Croucher
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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This means taking the time to define your organization's core values, mission and vision for a truly equitable and inclusive future.—
Heather V. MacArthur,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Soviet satellite controllers used the radio telescope, near the city of Yevpatoria on the Black Sea coast, to communicate with several missions of the Venus exploration program Venera in the late 1970s and early 1980s.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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On the top floor of the eight-story building was a recital hall called Steinhall Auditorium that had a seating capacity of nearly 250.—
Sarah Biegelsen,
Kansas City Star,
14 Sep. 2025
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What started out as an unassuming bingo hall in 1985 has grown into one of Northern California’s largest casino-resort destinations, with over 2,300 slot machines, 80-plus table games and 659 four-diamond luxury hotel rooms.—
David Weiss,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Construction began on the Silverado Canyon abbey in 2018, about 7 miles north of its previous location in Trabuco Canyon after the priests and seminarians outgrew that location.—
Andrea Klick,
Oc Register,
2 Sep. 2025
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Inextricably tied to the D-Day invasion of World War II, this northern French region of orchards, dairies, horse farms and seaside villages along the English Channel draws visitors who come to honor the fallen or visit famous medieval fortresses and abbeys.—
Seth Sherwood,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Meetinghouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meetinghouse. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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