high priest

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Recent Examples of high priest That day, my father took a bus ride to visit my grandfather, a high priest in Ijebu Igbo. Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 The local olive trees have long furnished the oil used to anoint kings and high priests. Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025 The Torah describes the details of the breastplate that the high priest, Aaron, and his sons wore. Rabbi Ashley Englander, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025 Despite his love of the spotlight, the high priest opted to hang back, a calculated effort to play it cool. Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for high priest
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Noun
  • Simonds is a proponent of patterned wallpaper, statement lighting, colorful tile, and more.
    Amanda Sims, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Now Guillermo del Toro — cinema’s biggest proponent of big-screen fantasy — has completed his two-and-a-half-hour version, an epic adaptation with a blockbuster budget, a stamp of auteurship, and decades spent ruminating on the relevance of Shelley’s text in the modern era.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The other legend concerns a black magic practitioner who fell in love with a princess.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The Awards honors practitioners across film, television, commercial and digital content who have showcased excellence in color grading in the past year.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Idaho lawmakers and advocates have stressed that their goals are bodily autonomy and informed choice.
    Audrey Dutton, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Power resources have long been a sticking point for data center opponents and consumer advocates who argue the massive structures will sap energy and lead to higher electric bills for residential consumers.
    Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After years of a 4-4-2 being the prevailing setup across Europe in the 1990s, former Manchester City assistant manager Juanma Lillo was an early exponent of the 4-2-3-1 system in the early 2000s during his time in Spain.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Young Thug is the purest exponent of mainstream rap’s melodic rap era.
    Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Favorability Ratings Reveal Polarized Electorate All three candidates face underwater favorability ratings, though Mamdani’s supporters remain the most energized.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • At last weekend’s general assembly of Barcelona club members, Laporta tried to thread a delicate path when defending the plan to play a domestic game over 4,500 miles away, knowing that Tebas is not exactly popular with his team’s supporters.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Founder Fawn Weaver may lose control of her cult Tennessee distillery after a judge mandates a receivership—unless a white knight investor bails her out.
    Chloe Sorvino, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • As any self-respecting white knight would do, Conrad bravely takes up the mantle of responsibility and decides to help Belly pick out hurricane glasses himself.
    Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025

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“High priest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20priest. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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