rabbi

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Recent Examples of rabbi The rabbi and his golem, Dr. Frankenstein and his monster, the scientist and his cyborg. Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 23 May 2025 During her time in medical school, however, Qasem Hassan found a mentor in David Applebaum, an ordained rabbi and an emergency-medicine doctor who was known for rushing to the scenes of suicide bombings to tend to the victims. Eyal Press, New Yorker, 9 June 2025 One of the burn victims is a Holocaust survivor, a local rabbi said. Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 4 June 2025 Additionally, representatives from Jewish organizations and synagogues, as well as prominent rabbis, each met with Grant to explain the offensive nature of the order, and to educate the general on the error of his ways. Time, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for rabbi
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Noun
  • In May, a Sacramento Bee investigation found that St. Hope leadership misled the district about an investigation into teacher allegations that a coach was partying with his students.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2025
  • Former middle school teacher Lorraine Carter Salazar isn't easily embarrassed.
    Megan Myscofski, NPR, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • His father had come to China in the 1950s as a leftist intellectual, eventually moving to Hong Kong.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 June 2025
  • Tie public engagement to tenure decisions, and watch all faculty suddenly discover their inner public intellectual.
    Ann Kirschner, Forbes.com, 5 June 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
  • According to a recent study from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, human intellect has declined since 2012.
    Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • Customer-facing interactions require human intuition to navigate sensitive moments where empathy, sensitivity and emotional intellect truly matter.
    Joel Frenette, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Herbs: Anise, basil, bay laurel, chive, dill, ginger, lemon balm, Mexican tarragon, mint, oregano, sage, sweet marjoram and thyme.
    Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2025
  • Dishes are flavored with epazote, sage, mint, cota, and wild parsley and seasoned with native chilies and, most important, salt that the Pueblo people traditionally harvested from the Zuni Salt Lake and the Estancia Valley, both in New Mexico.
    Michael Shaikh June 25, Literary Hub, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Audun Amundsen’s documentary Click the Link Below, exploring the world of high-rolling digital marketing and lifestyle gurus, world premieres at the DocEdge festival in New Zealand this week and Deadline can reveal the trailer.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 26 June 2025
  • The first five gurus, a succession of prophet-leaders, likely donned the seli topi, a woven cap worn by Hindus and Muslims and associated with humility and spiritual living.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • Jacobs, a White man, likened Walton, a Black woman, to David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 27 June 2025
  • The star, who portrayed Alex Russo on Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place, shared a photo from the spinoff’s set of her hand — complete with glittering manicure — holding her red wizard wand on Instagram Stories.
    Anna Chan, Billboard, 27 June 2025

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