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Recent Examples of swami
Play the damn game without worrying about all that swami stuff.
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Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 June 2026
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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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.
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Ashley Stimpson,
Longreads,
19 Feb. 2022
The swami named her Ganga, for the Ganges River.
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BostonGlobe.com,
5 June 2021
Yogananda was the first Indian swami to make America his home.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Vikram Zutshi,
Quartz India,
19 July 2019
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 June 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swami
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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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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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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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Her father worked as a pandit -- or Hindu priest -- at a temple, and visited homes to perform rituals.
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Or, in this case, a rabbi with a realization.
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His cousin volunteered his home for the week of shiva; a rabbi from Puerto Rico coordinated the minyans.
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“Swami.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swami. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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