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Recent Examples of chapel
Step back in time with a visit to this fado joint, built in a former chapel in Alfama, with the original tiles and murals still on the walls.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2026
Jean Cocteau’s influence can be felt across the French Riviera, from Menton to Hyères, but this jewel-box of a fishermen's chapel is the French writer and artist’s most beloved legacy.
—Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2026
Upon Pope Leo’s election in May 2025, Villanova students and faculty flocked to the on-campus chapel as the church bells rang out across the Philadelphia campus.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026
His influence extended far beyond the chapel walls.
—Nakell Williams, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2026
Jean Cocteau’s influence can be felt across the French Riviera, from Menton to Hyères, but this jewel-box of a fishermen's chapel is the French writer and artist’s most beloved legacy.
—Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2026
Upon Pope Leo’s election in May 2025, Villanova students and faculty flocked to the on-campus chapel as the church bells rang out across the Philadelphia campus.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026
His influence extended far beyond the chapel walls.
—Nakell Williams, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chapel
Noun
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Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
23 Apr. 2026
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The area Brilliantly located in the old town with two of the city’s biggest attractions—the Unesco World Heritage cathedral and Real Alcázar—a 15-minute stroll south.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Depending on the season (the camp opens from May through December, when temperatures are pleasant), days fill with picnics in the mountains, visits to Buddhist festivals, or merit-making ceremonies at nearby temples and shrines.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Apr. 2026
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He was canonized by Pope Alexander III in 1161, and his shrine at Westminster Abbey became a major pilgrimage site in medieval England.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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He was accused of sending threatening emails to the abbey at 27977 Silverado Canyon Road, Manley said.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
28 Mar. 2026
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On his arrival at the meeting venue at a historic 12-century abbey in Vaux-de-Cerney outside of Paris, Rubio posed for a group photo with his fellow foreign ministers but none of them spoke.—
Sean Nevin,
NBC news,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Altman pitched the conversion as critical to securing the vast amount of funding OpenAI needs to fulfill its mission of creating artificial general intelligence — or AGI — that will benefit humanity.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
27 Apr. 2026
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The case centers on Musk’s claim that OpenAI, Altman and Microsoft betrayed OpenAI's original mission as a nonprofit to benefit humanity by forming a for-profit entity in March 2019, 13 months after Musk left the OpenAI board.—
Deepa Seetharaman,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The whole thing feels more like a seaside sanctuary for people who’ve outgrown the noise.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Apr. 2026
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The results leave St Pauli in 16th and in the relative sanctuary of the play-off place, with Wolfsburg one point behind and Heidenheim still bottom, four points further back.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Depending on the season (the camp opens from May through December, when temperatures are pleasant), days fill with picnics in the mountains, visits to Buddhist festivals, or merit-making ceremonies at nearby temples and shrines.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Apr. 2026
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The path connects several temples including Ginkaku-ji (Silver Pavilion) and is known as the favorite place of famous philosopher Nishida Kitaro, hence the name.—
Lauren Schuster,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In the corner of one of Amsterdam's most elegant 17th-century canal houses, a cheetah leaps from an antique tabernacle.—
Karen Burshtein,
Time,
12 Mar. 2026
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Vandals broke into a Catholic school in Long Beach overnight Monday, stealing church items, damaging statues and tossing the tabernacle to the ground, according to police and school officials.—
Summer Lin,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Chapel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chapel. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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