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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.
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Brook Larmer, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
Brook Larmer, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mahatma
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Published: May 10, 2025 Sierra Vandervort (Photo: Neal Francis; Outside Festival) Sierra is a writer, yogi, and music lover living in the Pacific Northwest.—
Sierra Vandervort,
Outside Online,
10 May 2025
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Maybe the resident baker-in-chief could use a new recipe stand for pouring over ingredients or the hardcore yogi could use a new mat.—
Sarah Madaus,
Architectural Digest,
17 Apr. 2025
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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
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In the mid-’80s, when the community had swollen to more than 600 residents, New Vrindaban’s swami, a thin-lipped former Baptist, was accused of ordering the assassination of two disgruntled devotees.—
Ashley Stimpson,
Longreads,
19 Feb. 2022
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Filming is underway in Colombia on bilingual political thriller White, a feature about Indian guru Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s role in Colombia’s peace process.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
9 Sep. 2025
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Nuno’s remarks came after The Athletic reported a row with Edu, the club’s transfer guru and Arsenal’s former sporting director, was at the heart of his disillusionment.—
Dan Cancian,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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The Tennessean sat down with Schiftan, 65, who retired as senior rabbi from The Temple in Nashville, and Boehm, 85, who retired from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, to talk about their friendship and their project.—
Brad Schmitt,
The Tennessean,
28 Aug. 2025
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The rabbi’s executive assistant who sent the original email to Guthrie confirmed its veracity to the AP.—
Kate Payne,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Aug. 2025
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The always watchable Zem (Other People’s Children) is strong as an obsessive intellectual whose theories drive him to push others to the brink, while Valeria Golino (a requisite for any Italian festival film these days) shows up as the aggrieved mother of a victim.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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The first National Conservatism conferences drew students and intellectuals who felt marginalized by the Republican Party and dreamed about taking power.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Michèle comes across as a singular and powerful personality, with something of Akerman’s own trenchant intellect, assertive candor, and vulnerable self-revelation.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Sep. 2025
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With his new book, Pan, Clune has turned his cockeyed sensibility and coruscating intellect to fiction.—
Scott Stossel,
The Atlantic,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Mahatma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mahatma. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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