rabbi

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Recent Examples of rabbi The messianic fervor was such that General Shlomo Goren, the chief rabbi of the I.D.F., implored his commanding officer, Uzi Narkis, to blow up the Dome of the Rock, a Muslim holy place situated on the Temple Mount. David Remnick, New Yorker, 28 July 2025 Many have asked him: Why become a rabbi so late in life? Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 21 July 2025 Schneier, a senior rabbi at Park East Synagogue since 1962 who went on to lead the synagogue, has lived in the house ever since. Kim Velsey, Curbed, 10 July 2025 Nevarez is the senior rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in San Diego and president of the San Diego Association of Rabbis and Cantors. Jason Nevarez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for rabbi
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rabbi
Noun
  • Some may argue these shifts undermine teacher autonomy.
    Marielys Divanne, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
  • When Alabama enacted a new law keeping phones out of classrooms for the 2025-2026 school year, one teacher saw an instant change.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Yet the liberal intellectuals who have spent the past decade bashing identity politics and the woke mind virus have not embraced him.
    Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The partnership between their two countries was amplified and strengthened by the thousands of experts, administrators, publicists, intellectuals, and serving military who learned, not always easily, to work with one another.
    MARGARET MACMILLAN, Foreign Affairs, 21 July 2025
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
  • 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
Noun
  • Downstairs on Deck 16, the Top Sail Lounge glows in black marble and sage velvet.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • But the black observed in Andean sage flowers is naturally occurring.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 1 Aug. 2025
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
  • Yes, the warrior who fought wizards, ogres and various other monsters in the Roger Corman-produced 1983 sword and sorcery cult classic is back on the big screen.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Umphrey’s McGee jam wizard Kris Myers stepped down in May, a couple years after rotator-cuff surgery.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2025

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“Rabbi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabbi. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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