mahatma

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Recent Examples of mahatma But a statue of Mohandas Gandhi in a Delhi park seemed girded for the struggle ahead: Antipollution campaigners had fitted the mahatma with a respirator mask. Brook Larmer, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
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Noun
  • Published: May 10, 2025 Sierra Vandervort (Photo: Neal Francis; Outside Festival) Sierra is a writer, yogi, and music lover living in the Pacific Northwest.
    Sierra Vandervort, Outside Online, 10 May 2025
  • In 1980, after meeting the yogi Swami Muktananda at an ashram in the Catskills, Rashad began practicing Siddha yoga, which trains its followers to recognize the divinity in themselves and the surrounding world.
    Reggie Ugwu, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Several sequels followed, including one called Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, in which Karloff plays a hypnotist swami from the Orient.
    Jordan Hoffman, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The swami named her Ganga, for the Ganges River.
    BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021
Noun
  • The pop-up also included an in-person Transform discussion with health guru Jay Shetty and an athletic wear shop featuring their latest Form Athletics Collection, which goes live on their website today.
    Nadja Sayej, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • That elite quintet consisted of domestic policy advisor Bruce Reed, chief strategist Mike Donilon, legislative affairs guru Steve Ricchetti and chief of staff Ron Klain, each of whom had deep ties to Biden.
    Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Her grandmother isn’t a pandit – in India, as well as in Indian diaspora communities, that’s been a domain that is largely populated by men, with cultural mores at play.
    Deepti Hajela, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Her father worked as a pandit -- or Hindu priest -- at a temple, and visited homes to perform rituals.
    Vedika Sud, Esha Mitra and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 11 June 2021
Noun
  • Being a rabbi, being a spiritual leader, is always tough.
    Brian Bennett, Time, 23 May 2025
  • While Saul tries to seek out a rabbi who can recite the special prayer for the dead known as Kaddish, his colleagues gear up for the famous 1944 revolt among the Sonderkommando to blow up the gas chambers and crematoria before escaping.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • The city has long attracted artists, writers, and intellectuals, and a cerebral, film-noir-like vibe still pervades, especially in the city center.
    Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2025
  • Highland Beach quickly became a magnet for prominent Black intellectuals, including Paul Robeson, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois.
    Mariette Williams, Essence, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Along with interactivity, embodied experiences become multi-sensory that bypass the intellect and speak to the heart, connecting facts to emotions and emotions to lasting action.
    Victoria Bousis, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
  • Season 2 has robbed Ellie of her agency, her rage, her competency, her intellect.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025

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“Mahatma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mahatma. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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