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as in proponent
a person who actively supports or favors a cause
the high priest of tax relief for the state's property owners
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as in practitioner
one who brings an art or science to full realization
as the high priest of nouvelle cuisine, he was enormously influential in the food world
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Recent Examples of high priest
Each Jew was represented when the high priest entered the Ark of the Covenant.
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Rabbi Ashley Englander, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
The knowledge of how to make them was lost for about 50 years, until the foundation encouraged Ms. Ngurah – whose father had been a Hindu high priest – to document available information.
—Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2025
Thanks to Payraudeau’s research, experts now know that the granite sarcophagus was reused by a high priest named Menkheperre around 1000 B.C.E., masking its connection to its original occupant.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Suddenly, Jackson’s career was kicked into the stratosphere, and Jones was regarded as the high priest of pop music.
—Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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Rabbi Ashley Englander, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
The knowledge of how to make them was lost for about 50 years, until the foundation encouraged Ms. Ngurah – whose father had been a Hindu high priest – to document available information.
—Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2025
Thanks to Payraudeau’s research, experts now know that the granite sarcophagus was reused by a high priest named Menkheperre around 1000 B.C.E., masking its connection to its original occupant.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Suddenly, Jackson’s career was kicked into the stratosphere, and Jones was regarded as the high priest of pop music.
—Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for high priest
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However, proponents believe navel pulling can offer all these benefits and enhance overall vitality.2 Much of this practice is rooted in Ayurveda, an alternative approach to medicine that has existed for thousands of years.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
26 Mar. 2025
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Musk and other autonomous vehicle proponents have pushed for simpler rules and exemptions to restrictions on vehicles that don’t have human controls.—
Bloomberg,
The Mercury News,
25 Mar. 2025
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Facilitated by a team that includes faculty members from the PNW’s College of Business, as well as leadership practitioners, the LNI program meets monthly from September 2025 to May 2026.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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Much of black metal has typically maligned Christianity and other institutional religions, and some practitioners took parts in Norwegian church burnings in the 1990s.—
Mikal Gilmore,
Rolling Stone,
30 Mar. 2025
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Foods That Will Keep You Full Without Spiking Your Blood Sugar Learn more about our advocates A Quick Review People with type 2 diabetes do not produce enough or resist insulin.—
Julia Ries,
Health,
9 Apr. 2025
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Sellner has been an outspoken advocate for the rights of mothers in Germany.—
Asif Burhan,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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That would have given him more complicated Taylor approximations, with exponents greater than 2.—
Kevin Hartnett,
Quanta Magazine,
24 Mar. 2025
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Finding Wiggle Room There is no fast, general purpose method for finding the minima of functions raised to high exponents.—
Kevin Hartnett,
Quanta Magazine,
24 Mar. 2025
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The good news for supporters of seven of the Premier League’s 20 clubs is that their lads will play for a trip to Wembley Stadium in next month’s FA Cup semi-finals at some point over the weekend.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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About forty per cent of the graduates of the Army’s infantry officer schools, Peri notes, come from the dati leumi, or nationalist Orthodox minority, many of them extremist yeshiva students and supporters of settlements.—
Bernard Avishai,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2025
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Buster Posey rode into the Giants’ top baseball decision-maker role as a white knight.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
24 Mar. 2025
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Sports leagues hope that streamers will be the white knight.—
Alex Sherman,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
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“High priest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20priest. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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