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seminary

noun

ˈse-mə-ˌner-ē

Definition 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 seminary 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 Following his opera career, Schachtel’s father became a cantor and married a granddaughter of Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor, a rabbi of Grodno, after whom the seminary of Yeshiva University is named. — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026 Eventually, Lamb attended seminary and became a Catholic priest in 1966. — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2026 The location pushed the seminary’s politics to the left, but poverty and activist flags are harder to find in Chelsea these days. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 26 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for seminary

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While Usher was off basking in the afterglow of Confessions, maturing into a divorcé in the mid-2000s, the R&B world was already priming itself for a new-school successor.

— Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 25 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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New York — As a new mom-to-be, my social media feeds have clocked me — funneling endless videos my way about pregnancy, nursery prep and birth stories, to the point of baby information overload.

— Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
The nursery is designed to produce low-cost seedlings for conservation, with some trees available for purchase and others used to restore forests affected by wildfires.

— Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

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My brain is a rat’s nest of judicial decisions, fun facts about small mammals, and lots and lots of astronomy stuff.

— Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026
The nest is redolent of carnivore, a mix of their own potent musk and the stink of blood and decay.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026

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Alaska Airlines, Boise Airport’s main flight provider, will soon launch nonstop service from Idaho’s capital city to Santa Rosa, California.

— Hali Smith, Idaho Statesman, 28 Oct. 2026
The country's upper house of parliament voted last month to require UBS to hold 90% of Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital, or about $16 billion in extra shares, as collateral to support its foreign subsidiaries.

— Hugh Leask, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2026

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But in the eight years since that location opened its doors, the brand has grown, and the mall has evolved from small art galleries into a vintage mecca.

— Max Berlinger, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
Food meccas include Pier 57 (hit Nom Wah for legendary dim sum, or LoLo’s on the Water for the fish fry) and, of course, Chelsea Market (try Miznon’s pita cheeseburger and roasted cauliflower, and Ayada’s mango sticky rice).

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026

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