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Recent Examples of Synonyms for minster
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The cathedral reopened last month in Paris with an opening ceremony attended by then-President-elect Donald Trump, then-First Lady Jill Biden, Prince William and other notable figures.—
Stephen Sorace,
Fox News,
29 Jan. 2025 -
Among its most iconic landmarks are York Castle (built after the 11th-century Norman conquest), the spectacular Gothic cathedral of York Minster, and the city walls, the oldest parts of which date back to Roman times.—
Jessica Macdonald,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Jan. 2025
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Gathering of family and friends will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral chapel.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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Wye Oak Tavern is located in what used to be the school's chapel, with soaring ceilings, stained glass, a tabernacle, and a sizable pipe organ.—
Madeline Weinfield,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Feb. 2025
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Over the next few centuries, the abbey’s importance as a place of study and prayer, as well as its political and cultural significance, only grew.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Jan. 2025
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The original Poe short story follows a prince who attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
21 Jan. 2025
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His four All-Pro teams, 10 Pro Bowl teams and slew of Super Bowl and team records should assure Kelce’s first-ballot status at the football shrine in his home state.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
31 Jan. 2025
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Then more incense is lit and food is offered to ancestors; families will usually have a dedicated shrine, or even a room, set up in their homes to commemorate relatives who have passed.—
Mae Hamilton,
AFAR Media,
28 Jan. 2025
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SpaceX has been responsible for all by one of the missions flown from either Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral so far this year.—
Richard Tribou,
Orlando Sentinel,
8 Feb. 2025
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The Hubble Space Telescope has been aloft for 35 years and is still at work—thanks in part to the five servicing missions astronauts made to the telescope before the space shuttles were retired in 2011.—
Jeffrey Kluger/Greenbelt,
TIME,
8 Feb. 2025
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New analysis of Lidar scans revealed a dense network of thousands of structures, including temple pyramids, a palace complex, public plazas, reservoirs, and a court for playing ball sports.—
Erika Page,
The Christian Science Monitor,
3 Feb. 2025
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The Denver Post in 2022 published a three-part investigation that documented, for the first time, how local villagers dredged these valuable antiquities from a secret vault at the Plai Bat II temple in northeast Thailand and sold them to a burgeoning collector named Douglas Latchford.—
Sam Tabachnik,
The Denver Post,
1 Feb. 2025
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The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Choir of San Diego, also known as the MLK Choir, will perform a free concert at 3 p.m. in the church’s sanctuary.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Jan. 2025
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Two capys now housed at a sanctuary in Indiana called the Pipsqueakery had to have their toes removed after being left in the snow at their former home.—
Gary Shteyngart,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Minster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minster. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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