high priest

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Recent Examples of high priest The breastplate was worn over the high priest’s heart. Rabbi Ashley Englander, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025 Lekan Idris Elba (The Wire, Luther) will bring to life the heroic man who is the last high priest of the maji remaining after the Raid. EW.com, 22 Jan. 2025 The high priest of Goth advanced menswear to a new level, mixing grunge, sportswear and urban uniforms. Mimi Lombardo, Robb Report, 2 Oct. 2024 Each Jew was represented when the high priest entered the Ark of the Covenant. Rabbi Ashley Englander, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for high priest
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Noun
  • California’s Democratic leaders, including Newsom and top state lawmakers, have been major proponents of transitioning to renewable energy and imposing more restrictions on the state’s oil and gas industry.
    Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
  • Leo was a staunch proponent of church orthodoxy, helping guide the early church on tenets including the dual nature of Christ and the idea of papal infallibility.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • Middle managers need to become role models with a practitioner approach, keeping all aspects of ethical biases.
    Balmukund Shukla, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • Lindsay, an omega-level practitioner of the reality-television arts and sciences, is playing this all wrong.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Immigrant advocates including the American Civil Liberties Union challenged these deportations, arguing that the Trump administration has offered little evidence that the Venezuelans are gang members, and that the men have a right to contest those allegations in court.
    Joel Rose, NPR, 16 May 2025
  • Biking advocates say that the draconian crackdown was done without any public notice and that pedal bike riders are being swept up in this unprecedented dragnet.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • That would have given him more complicated Taylor approximations, with exponents greater than 2.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Jordan Klepper has spent more time following Donald Trump around the country than many of his most ardent supporters.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 15 May 2025
  • That is undeniable, and so too is the fact that Dan Ndoye and his Bologna team-mates will forever be heroes to Bologna supporters.
    Adam Digby, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Investors have clearly lost faith in a white knight coming along for Altice.
    Howard Homonoff, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • 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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“High priest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20priest. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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