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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mahatma
Noun
  • Mental health practitioners, alternative health providers, massage therapists, Reiki practitioners and a yogi can all be accessed at the wellness tent.
    Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
  • The journey into the gap between stimulus and reaction isn’t about achieving a state of perfect, yogi-like calm.
    Patrick Murphy, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • Play the damn game without worrying about all that swami stuff.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Kayne is many things, though queen of cashmere, beige’s biggest advocate, lifestyle guru, and Cali-cool designer are her main calling cards.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 9 June 2026
  • The professor of turfgrass research at Michigan State University is the grass guru responsible for the quality and durability of the World Cup pitches at the tournament’s 16 venues in North America.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
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
  • Ingber is the founding rabbi of Romemu, a major synagogue in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
    David Ingber, New York Daily News, 8 June 2026
  • But his candidate statement twists scripture to cast Jewish people as treacherous and contains antisemitic tropes, a rabbi with the conservative synagogue Mosaic Law Congregation told The Bee.
    Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • The challenge with her was playing such an intellectual.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 13 June 2026
  • Black intellectuals such as Ralph Ellison knew this, too, despite living at a time when the lynchings of Black people were still a regular feature of American life.
    Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • Luna spends the day in the socially conscious sign of Aquarius, shifting the emotional tone toward intellect, perspective, eccentricity and detachment.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • Mesoudi, who was not involved in the new study, agrees that cultural evolution was probably a key to human success while noting that the secret sauce could instead turn out to be social cooperation, language, individual intellect, or some combination of these factors.
    Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 4 June 2026

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“Mahatma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mahatma. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.

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