revivalist

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Recent Examples of revivalist Nathan Jerde, the drummer for Chicago’s beloved early-aughts garage rock revivalists the Ponys, has died. Walden Green, Pitchfork, 6 May 2025 On Thursday, trad-country revivalist Zach Top was awarded the trophy for New Male Artist of the Year backstage before his concert in Wilmington, North Carolina. Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2025 The band and collective have tapped trans artists and allies — including emo and skate-punk revivalists Home Is Where and Pinkshift, indie rockers Speedy Ortiz and Ted Leo, and genre-smelters Bartees Strange and L’Rain — to share wares and kick proceeds to future rallies and actions. Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025 But if her Blind Audition was any indication, The Voice might have just found its next great jazz revivalist. Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 25 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for revivalist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for revivalist
Noun
  • Matt Williams, a Michigan deer hunter and mushroom-food plot evangelist, noticed this back in 2023 while working on a paper about mushrooms as deer forage.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In a pinch, vanilla extract can be used as a substitute for paste and powder (and vice versa), according to vanilla paste evangelist and senior test kitchen editor Shilpa Uskokovic.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Thanks to Poway/Ramona Stake Relief Society President Laura Sommer along with missionaries and elders of the church, RFCC volunteers, volunteers from Julian Congregation, Julian Methodist Church, Mountain Mana Food Pantry and Backcountries Communities Thriving.
    Vesna Curry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Shane Lichtenberg, Armstrong's son-in-law, met Charne after coming to Armstrong's door as a missionary.
    Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 17 June 2022
  • Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.
    al, al, 1 Dec. 2020
Noun
  • Her parents waited outside, praying with the hospital’s chaplain.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Brooke devised the novel during her tenure as the expatriate wife of a chaplain stationed at a British garrison in Quebec.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As a young religious, Bishop-elect Lombardo did missionary work in Bolivia and Honduras.
    Laura Rodríguez Presa, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2020
Noun
  • How can a kindly, God-fearing, and ascetic novice monk compete against that?
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Lott is still a priest but is no longer a monk at Delbarton, nor is he affiliated with the school.
    Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Another friend was an evangelical pastor who grew up in the Jim Crow South believing that Black people were subhuman.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • As tensions boiled, clashes broke out and federal agents used pepper balls and tear gas, hitting journalists, a pastor and officers with the Chicago Police Department, according to reports and a lawsuit.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Her closeness to a man, her confessor Father Van Exem, was questioned by her congregation.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The automatic consequence for a confessor who breaks the seal of confession is excommunication – that is, banned, at least temporarily, from the sacraments of the church.
    Timothy Gabrielli, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Revivalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revivalist. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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