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as in expert
a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field
one of those weather gurus that the television networks always drag out whenever there's a big blizzard brewing
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as in practitioner
one who brings an art or science to full realization
the leading guru of electronic music in the 1960s
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Recent Examples of guru
Lizzo presented the Makeup Artist of the Year award to Alexx Mayo, the principal on her glam team and the beauty guru behind some of Mariah Carey's best.
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Pamela Avila, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
Polling guru Nate Silver Thursday even predicted Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) will be the next Democratic nominee for the White House.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2025
The lifestyle guru served an infamous five-month sentence for lying to federal investigators about a stock sale.
—Jay Stahl, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
That started a conversation with our lead tech and projection guru, Chapin Cutler, [co-founder] of Boston Light & Sound.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2025
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Pamela Avila, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
Polling guru Nate Silver Thursday even predicted Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) will be the next Democratic nominee for the White House.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2025
The lifestyle guru served an infamous five-month sentence for lying to federal investigators about a stock sale.
—Jay Stahl, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
That started a conversation with our lead tech and projection guru, Chapin Cutler, [co-founder] of Boston Light & Sound.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guru
Noun
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Reality does not meet the hype, according to one expert.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
11 May 2025
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But about a quarter of women in the U.S. are behind on such screenings, and medical experts say reducing that is key to the ultimate goal of eliminating cervical cancer.—
Jennifer Ludden,
NPR,
10 May 2025
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Middle managers need to become role models with a practitioner approach, keeping all aspects of ethical biases.—
Balmukund Shukla,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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Lindsay, an omega-level practitioner of the reality-television arts and sciences, is playing this all wrong.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
15 May 2025
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Get The Recipe 02 of 10 Pineapple Cherry Dump Cake Some of Grandma’s recipes take a practiced hand in the kitchen to master, but old-school dump cake recipes are literally foolproof.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
19 May 2025
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Every art lover must visit The Louvre at least once in their lifetime not just to see Leonardo’s incredible Mona Lisa and the famous Venus de Milo but for the quieter galleries too in the Richelieu wing with works by masters like Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer.—
Joanne Shurvell,
Forbes.com,
19 May 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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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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Immigration authorities released visiting Georgetown University scholar Badar Khan Suri on Wednesday following a federal judge’s ruling.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
14 May 2025
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Wednesday's court hearing was attended by dozens of people, including the scholar's family members, friends and colleagues at Georgetown and advocates.—
Soo Rin Kim,
ABC News,
14 May 2025
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Slot shares this staple of Tottenham counterpart Ange Postecoglou’s attacking principles, with Porro adept at tucking inside to disrupt the opposition shape.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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The result is that just these English words, representing just this original document, make for a new and somewhat undiscovered book, even to Marxist adepts.—
Benjamin Kunkel,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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The wizard with the task of pulling this off indoors is Al Zaabi.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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Sophie sets out to find a way of lifting the curse and goes to the wizard Howl's castle.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
EW.com,
10 May 2025
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Become Good At Something In Groundhog Day, Connors appears to relive the same day hundreds of times over; however, throughout the course of the film, Connors learns to speak French and becomes an expert at ice sculpting and a virtuoso pianist.—
Michael Hicks,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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During a pivotal moment of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club on Broadway, country virtuoso Orville Peck makes a bold choice.—
Stephen Daw,
Billboard,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Guru.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guru. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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