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
  • 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
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
  • 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
Noun
  • The guru was in prison and refused to leave prison without the other 52 political prisoners being released.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In Jodie Foster’s satire-cum-thriller, George Clooney plays a Jim Cramer-ish TV finance guru whose bullish promotion of one stock has led desperate prole Jack O’Connell to lose his life savings, leading to a hostage standoff in the TV studio.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 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
  • After Joanne, an agnostic podcaster, meets Noah, an unconventional rabbi, in the first season, the two dance around the idea of a potential relationship despite all of their differences.
    Leia Mendoza, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
  • For backround, in Season 1 of Nobody Wants This, an agnostic podcast host and an unconventional rabbi on the rebound walk into a party.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And this was disliked by intellectuals.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Think of it as a sleek and uncomfortable time capsule of the past half decade of #MeToo discourse, or as a character study of flawed intellectuals desperately attempting to perform their values while clinging to the facade of their respective identities.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Curriculums teach about the laws and governmental acts in place that withheld education and advancement from the enslaved, but skip over the intellect and radical acts Black people achieved anyway.
    Taylor Cassidy, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Know that you are loved in all ways, especially for your wit, intellect, and personality above anything else.
    Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Mahatma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mahatma. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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