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as in hideout
a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others the artist's desert hermitage was a small adobe house at the end of a long dusty road

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as in monastery
a residence for men under religious vows monks in that hermitage take a vow of silence

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Recent Examples of hermitage When Iyer’s wife accompanies him on a visit to the hermitage, the monks greet her warmly. Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025 Aflame, by Pico Iyer Travel writer and spiritual thinker Pico Iyer has spent time at a Benedictine hermitage in California, a seemingly idyllic setting. Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2025 An excavation in Lincolnshire revealed what appears to be a sacred site Archaeologists digging through a field in Lincolnshire, England, may have found a 1,300-year-old hermitage on the site of a much more ancient henge. Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024 The hermitage was his summer hideaway, a place for monthslong vacations with family and friends. Aimee Farrell, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hermitage
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  • Up until the al-Qaeda forces discover their hideout, the action is contained to mundane activities: confirming operations, tracking other platoons’ movements.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 7 May 2025
  • Based on a true story, a father and son in a warzone hospital face life-or-death choices as their hideout becomes increasingly compromised.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025
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  • Created by a Benedictine monk with a serious eye for detail, this whimsical stop features 125 tiny, handcrafted replicas of famous historic landmarks, like St. Peter’s Basilica and the Leaning Tower of Pisa, all located on the grounds of Alabama’s only Benedictine monastery, St. Bernard Abbey.
    Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 24 May 2025
  • Like living in a luxurious monastery, the rooms have no televisions and are filled with candles and lanterns to remain authentic to their history.
    Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
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  • Kelly scooped at the firm snow, tiny icicles swaying from his white mustache, but couldn’t find a lair.
    Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
  • Lidia, however, is still stuck dwelling in the monster’s lair.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2025
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  • The latter was particularly restorative, as was the Negroni No. 2 at Le Bar, in the cloister, which adds beets and strawberries to the classic recipe.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
  • When the breeze flows through the cloisters, the kites float, showing off their gravity-defying nature.
    Diana Budds, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2025
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  • For example, in Cape Verde, annual loggerhead turtle nests surged from 500 in 2008 to over 35,000 by 2020, while four out of five green turtle populations showed growth.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • The two will soon start hovering in the near future, further exercising their flight muscles and making their way from the nest to nearby branches.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 17 May 2025

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“Hermitage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermitage. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.

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