swami

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Recent Examples of swami 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 In the mid-’80s, when the community had swollen to more than 600 residents, New Vrindaban’s swami, a thin-lipped former Baptist, was accused of ordering the assassination of two disgruntled devotees. Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2022 The swami named her Ganga, for the Ganges River. BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021 Yogananda was the first Indian swami to make America his home. Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2020 Also born into an upper-caste family, Mr. Manav says he was compelled to drop his last name – a signifier of one’s caste – after hearing the swami speak. Soumya Shankar, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2020 The statue of Hanuman Murti (inset above), god of courage, was a gift from a swami in the motherland to consecrate Sri Dattatreya Yoga Centre in 2003. Omar Mouallem, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020 Perhaps realising how bad things had become, my grandfather agreed to take a vow of celibacy in the presence of a swami. Vikram Zutshi, Quartz India, 19 July 2019
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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
  • Maybe the resident baker-in-chief could use a new recipe stand for pouring over ingredients or the hardcore yogi could use a new mat.
    Sarah Madaus, Architectural Digest, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For Wentz, the positives to being able to start for a quarterback guru like Kevin O'Connell are fairly obvious.
    Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Kevin O’Connell is an offense coach and a guru on that end of the field.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
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
  • Bell, meanwhile, costars with Adam Brody in Nobody Wants This; the series follows an American rabbi (Brody, 45) and an agnostic woman who embark on a romantic relationship despite the odds against them.
    Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Szames, his mother, brother, sister and a rabbi and his five children all hid there until Szames and his family were to move to another location with another family.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025

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