revivalist

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Recent Examples of revivalist Best revivalists: Green Day at Wrigley Field, Aug. 13 The once-novel idea of an artist performing a signature album in its entirety has become as ubiquitous as the $50 concert T-shirt. Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 12 Dec. 2024 The vallenato revivalist was recently honored as the 2024 Person of the Year by the Latin Recording Academy in Miami. Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2024 Most producers settle in and stop evolving at some point, developing a recognizable sound, but Jones was never one to get stuck in the past and dismissed as a revivalist, which helps explain why he was involved with Number One singles in three different decades. Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024 His grandfather ran a Hindu martial arts training center, called an akhara, while his grandmother was the local head of the women’s wing of Arya Samaj, a Hindu revivalist movement that started in 1875 and has converted thousands of Christians and Muslims to Hinduism. Mohammad Ali, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2020 See All Example Sentences for revivalist
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Noun
  • The domes behind them represent the heavenly Jerusalem, and symbols of the evangelists ride the gorgeous blue and white clouds above.
    The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Vance is a laissez-faire evangelist for American tech dominance.
    Marc Caputo, Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Bissett’s initial career goal – to become a missionary in Africa – did not come to fruition.
    Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Over the centuries, colonizers came and went, and in 1721, Danish missionaries founded a permanent settlement at Godthåb (now Nuuk).
    Nicholas DeRenzo, AFAR Media, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 17 June 2022
  • Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.
    al, al, 1 Dec. 2020
Noun
  • Rahman, a criminal justice professor at the Community College of Philadelphia, formerly worked for the city's Department of Prisons and the Sheriff's Office, and is a Philly police chaplain.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Listen to this article An NYPD chaplain had an unholy hookup, according to police.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • They’re relentlessly pursued by Ash and her army of murderous monks and also must contend with the most fearsome CGI demonic creatures a mid-budget movie can create.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Once a guest demanded, and received, a magician; the hotel has the island’s only English-speaking Buddhist monk on speed dial; recently, a guest arrived at the hotel at 10 p.m. and wanted to propose to his girlfriend right away.
    Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The couple tied the knot two years later, with only Parton's mother and the pastor in attendance.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The private nuptials, which took place at the Ringgold Baptist Church in Ringgold, Ga., were attended by only the pastor Don Duvall, his wife, and Parton's mother, Avie Lee Owens.
    Nicole Briese, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Specifically, the nuns pointed a finger at Urbain Grandier—a local priest and their confessor.
    Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Its main purpose is not the creation of aesthetic beauty out of the materials at hand (life, pain) but selfishness: relieving the confessor’s desire to confess.
    Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Buddhist organizations, whose members are also known to skew older, have been trying to connect with younger people by updating the image of monastics, usually known for their no-nonsense asceticism.
    Koh Ewe, TIME, 13 May 2024
  • Over the past 2,000 years, Buddhist teachings have encountered distortions and alterations due to mistranslation and misinterpretation of Buddha-dharma by Buddhist patriarchs, eminent monastics, and Buddhist scholars.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023

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“Revivalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revivalist. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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