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nuhn

  • n  a woman religious
  • n  a buoy resembling a cone
  • n  the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

  • Katharine Johnson is considering becoming a nun, but isn't quite sure the religious life is for her.
  • A former nun's new memoirs are the latest in a long series of accusations and scandals afflicting the Catholic Church in Kerala, India's most Christian state.
  • Sister Agnes Mansour supervises Medicaid abortions She is one of Michigan's most respected Roman Catholic nuns.
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  • Paris Hilton in Reuters Canada
    There was a nun who works at the jail for all the ladies, and she would come every day and we would pray,said Hilton.
  • Cher in MyParkMag
    Cher said: "I didn't anticipate the dryness getting to my throat the way it does. So when I'm in Las Vegas, I have to kind of live like a nun and not talk during the day. It's so hard for me, I just really have to think about it and just not speak,...
  • Frank Wolf in AFP
    Congressman Frank Wolf called it a "dark, dark moment" and recalled hearing Tibetans' past accounts of torture at the Drapchi prison in the Himalayan territory. "What would a Buddhist monk or Buddhist nun in Drapchi prison think when he heard...

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