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Recent Examples of pandit
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.
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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.
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Vedika Sud, Esha Mitra and Julia Hollingsworth,
CNN,
11 June 2021
Juneja's story is in many ways a typical one, said Sapna Pandya, a Washington, D.C.-based pandit, the title given to Hindu religious scholars and priests who perform wedding and other spiritual rituals.
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NBC News,
2 Mar. 2021
The wedding ceremony was a traditional Hindu ceremony performed by a pandit (priest).
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Alexandra MacOn,
Vogue,
29 Sep. 2020
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
Juneja's story is in many ways a typical one, said Sapna Pandya, a Washington, D.C.-based pandit, the title given to Hindu religious scholars and priests who perform wedding and other spiritual rituals.
—
NBC News,
2 Mar. 2021
The wedding ceremony was a traditional Hindu ceremony performed by a pandit (priest).
—
Alexandra MacOn,
Vogue,
29 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pandit
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Mental health practitioners, alternative health providers, massage therapists, Reiki practitioners and a yogi can all be accessed at the wellness tent.
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The journey into the gap between stimulus and reaction isn’t about achieving a state of perfect, yogi-like calm.
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Play the damn game without worrying about all that swami stuff.
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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.
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But according to fashion guru Tan France, some of those tensions sparked before the cameras even started rolling.
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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.
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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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Lazowski was the rabbi at Beth Hillel Synagogue in Bloomfield for many years before retiring, then was rabbi emeritus at Beth Hillel and at The Emanuel Synagogue in West Hartford.
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Ingber is the founding rabbi of Romemu, a major synagogue in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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Odysseus is a warrior with wit and intellect, a con man and fabulist who constantly reinvents himself.
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His immediate presence was one of sharp intellect, efficiency and modesty.
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They were refined and astute thinkers.
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While agile new companies can offer top AI thinkers massive equity upside, Hassabis’s confidence is rooted in Google’s structural advantages, including its unparalleled ecosystem of data, integrated hardware, and sheer computing power.
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Founded by Thiel and Auren Hoffman, the invite-only network of CEOs, politicians and intellectuals meets to have small, moderated conversations in confidentiality about the future of tech, according to Axios, which reported the forum’s plans for a DC-area campus last year.
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The challenge with her was playing such an intellectual.
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