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
  • 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
  • But according to fashion guru Tan France, some of those tensions sparked before the cameras even started rolling.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 23 June 2026
  • The program will be run under Scott Belsky, a longtime digital guru at Adobe and the co-founded of creative platform Behance who has a team of about two dozen at the studio, a fairly large number gives its otherwise efficient staffing.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 22 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
  • Or, in this case, a rabbi with a realization.
    Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 22 June 2026
  • His cousin volunteered his home for the week of shiva; a rabbi from Puerto Rico coordinated the minyans.
    Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • Photography and the secret of Frederick Douglass' power Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery and became an influential orator, writer and intellectual, was the most photographed person in America in the 19th century.
    David Morgan, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • Beginning in the 1870s, atheism and indifference to religion became popular, especially among younger intellectuals.
    David Mislin, The Conversation, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Odysseus is a warrior with wit and intellect, a con man and fabulist who constantly reinvents himself.
    David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • His immediate presence was one of sharp intellect, efficiency and modesty.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2026

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“Mahatma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mahatma. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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