rabbi

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Recent Examples of rabbi The Syrian government has sent lightly armed fighters, who pose for photos with the rabbis, to accompany the delegation. Jane Arraf, NPR, 27 Feb. 2025 Stanton, a rabbi, is associate vice president for Interfaith and Intergroup Initiatives at the Jewish Federations of North America. Joshua Stanton, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025 Their grandfather on their mother’s side had been a rabbi. Gabra Zackman Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025 Fink, a married father of three, was a lawyer and the former rabbi of the Pacific Jewish Center (now known as the Shul on the Beach) in Venice Beach, California. Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rabbi
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Noun
  • The program is designed for string students of all ages and skill levels; participants will engage in daily instruction from directors of the Arkansas Symphony Youth Orchestras, Arkansas Symphony String Academy teachers and other members of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.
    Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 3 May 2025
  • The partial answer, one that feels weirdly isolated from just about everything else in the show, is that the detention center has a drama program whose teacher (Bat-Chen Sabag) sees something extraordinary in him—the same thing that makes Zoro perceive Dean as superior and thus worth protecting.
    Judy Berman, Time, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • This isn't exactly the Cultural Revolution, where Mao Zedong—distrustful of intellectuals and scientists—forced the country's best minds into menial labor.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
  • During the dispute over Babri Masjid, Ashis Nandy, a prominent Indian intellectual, began a series of interviews with R.S.S. members.
    Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For example, business writers, consider copywriter guru Herschell Gordon Lewis’s insight: Emotion outsells intellect.
    Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Sufi stories rely on metaphor, rhythm, repetition, and lyricism, to penetrate not just the cerebral intellect but the intellect of the heart.
    Sonya Rehman, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Soft, soothing shades like dusty blues, sage greens and warm neutrals can help create a tranquil mood.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • That program including opening the mouth to the ocean, restoring tidal wetlands, creating new endangered bird breeding habitat and preserving the surrounding coastal sage scrub habitat vital for endangered songbirds, such as the Belding’s savannah sparrow.
    Jeff Regan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Here’s what those LinkedIn gurus aren't telling you.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • John, a club and restaurant owner known around town as a nightlife guru, has rights to the land for up to 100 years under the comprehensive agreement.
    Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • Not long after addressing Harry Potter fans’ concerns that an American actor will play the British wizard Albus Dumbledore, John Lithgow is turning to a different criticism of his casting in HBO‘s Potter series: backlash over boarding a project exec-produced by J.K. Rowling.
    Rebecca Luther, TVLine, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Chris recruits Brax to help as well as a room of brilliant computer wizards led by Justine, Chris' partner with nonverbal autism who communicates via a British computer voice.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Rabbi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabbi. Accessed 13 May. 2025.

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