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
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Noun
  • 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
  • In 1980, after meeting the yogi Swami Muktananda at an ashram in the Catskills, Rashad began practicing Siddha yoga, which trains its followers to recognize the divinity in themselves and the surrounding world.
    Reggie Ugwu, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The swami named her Ganga, for the Ganges River.
    BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021
Noun
  • His gurus through the years ranged from Krishnamurti, to Ram Dass and D.T..
    Jon Raymond August 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Perhaps the most fascinating peek behind the curtain, however, comes at her career transition to Goop guru.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 29 July 2025
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
  • Another Brachman brother, Abraham Joshua (A.J.) Brachman, who later became a rabbi, worked closely with Sol.
    Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The rabbi had known Ari since her naming ceremony when she was born and had married her parents, Todd Buchman and Rhonda Mitrani.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Just a year ago, some American intellectuals and policymakers hoped that this system could survive into the indefinite future, so that unilateral U.S. coercive strength and liberal values would continue to go hand in hand.
    HENRY FARRELL, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
  • From the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival to the Martha’s Vineyard Black Book Festival and everything in between, Black intellectuals are coming together to share notes and swap contacts to forge new relationships and invest in each other.
    Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This makes abundant sense since AGI will be on par with human intellect and presumably available 24/7 anywhere and anyplace.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Imagine if zombies were just humans who their intellect, but are also homicidal maniacs.
    Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2025

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“Mahatma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mahatma. Accessed 30 Aug. 2025.

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