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seminaries

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plural of seminary

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a place or establishment for teaching and learning a seminary exclusively for women

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a place or environment that favors the development of something some claimed that orphanages were seminaries of sin and petty crime, turning out juvenile delinquents by the score

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Recent Examples of seminaries Amir Levy/Getty Rather than serve in the military, most ultra-Orthodox men study full-time in religious seminaries. — Dov Lieber, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 The earnings test applies to thousands of programs at schools ranging from professional certificates to arts programs at elite universities and seminaries. — Ira Porter, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2026 He is also believed to have furthered his religious studies in seminaries around Quetta and Kuchlak in Balochistan. — Andrew Pereira, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Aug. 2026 This week brought me from Belgian Gothic seminaries to Victorian mansions, with a few aggressively average $4,700 apartments sprinkled among them to keep us grounded. — Nora Deligter, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2026 Southwestern Seminary continues to be one of the largest and best resourced seminaries among the 280 seminaries accredited by the Association of Theological Schools, Dockery said in his letter. — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 June 2026 The politically powerful ultra-Orthodox parties have won exemptions for their followers to forgo military service and instead study in religious seminaries, but those exemptions are under threat. — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026 Orthodox schools, a figure that does not include haredi Orthodox teenagers studying in yeshivot and seminaries not included in government data. — Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026 Taylor grew up evangelical and got a master’s from Fuller Theological Seminary, at the time one of the country’s most prominent evangelical seminaries. — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026

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City utility plans call for extending a water main south along Bledsoe Avenue to serve the schools, the Bledsoe property and future western developments.

— Randy Moll, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Many voters thank him for pulling Serbia from economic obscurity and orchestrating a period of sustained modernisation including new highways, railways, schools and hospitals.

— Reuters, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2026

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Much of Modi’s comedy centers on differences between various kinds of Jews, a friction that elicits knowing laughters from his (largely, but not wholly) Jewish audience.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2026
In 2012, as part of a nationwide cost-cutting move, the Postal Service closed the mail processing centers in Fort Lauderdale and Pembroke Pines and shifted the work sorting Broward’s mail to the Opa-locka center in Miami-Dade County.

— Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026

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As for where to purchase both milkweed and nectar-producing plants, Sardiñas recommended checking out Calscape, a website by the California Native Plant Society, for help finding local nurseries that sell native plants.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Other garden bits Fall plant sales abound Now is the perfect time to procure new plants, as gardens and nurseries across Southern California are hosting plant sales over the coming weeks.

— Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

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That’s quite a claim from a man who oversees one of the world’s most prolific hotbeds of anti-vaccine conspiracism.

— Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2026
However, Canada’s success at the World Cup could lead to even more interest in soccer in traditional hockey hotbeds.

— Shelby Blackley, New York Times, 4 July 2026

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This species has an unusual form of social organization known as unicoloniality, in which ants from different nests cooperate rather than fight.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
Thankfully, these aren't the nests of some colossal moon-dwelling arachnids, but streaks of bright material cast across the lunar surface by the violent impacts that created the bright young craters.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2026

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