Magdala
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Mary Magdalene, here named Miri of Magdala, seizes the opportunity to announce that she’s not a prostitute, as long thought, but a wealthy divorcee.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024
Magdala Jean, 33, and her husband came from Haiti.
From New York Times • May 19, 2022
They are called tabots – replica tablets on which the Ten Commandments are written, and which were nicked by the Brits after the battle of Magdala.
From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2019
This is deeply contentious territory that flies in the face of the commonly accepted orthodoxy that Mary of Magdala was a prostitute.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2018
People talk lightly of Magdala and its savage garrison; but if they prove true to their king, it will prove as hard a nut as British prowess ever had to crack.
From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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