evangelist

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Recent Examples of evangelist Charles Koch has long been a foe of protectionism and an evangelist for free markets, competitive advantage, and mutual benefit. Philip Elliott, Time, 2 May 2025 Javier Hasse Instead, Blazy Susan has grown by turning employees into leaders and customers into evangelists. Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025 This is a movie that features legendary bluesman Buddy Guy and, on the soundtrack, banjo evangelist Rhiannon Giddens and Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025 In this version, the controversial evangelist is somewhere between tragic feminist icon and pioneering proto-influencer—a kind of Kabbalah Kardashian or St. Taylor Swift. Casey Cep, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for evangelist
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Noun
  • More than a dozen activists were arrested Wednesday evening during a protest at U.S. Immigration Court in Manhattan, police sources said.
    Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 29 May 2025
  • Still, many families and activists are speaking out against the CIF for allowing the situation to continue at all, and the Trump administration has given no indication the rule changes will satisfy its demands on the issue.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • Peruvians remember the young American priest who became pope Prevost, who lived in Peru as a missionary in the 1980s and the 1990s, would have heard about these accounts while serving as Bishop of Chiclayo starting in 2014, especially following the publication of Ugaz and Salinas’ bombshell book.
    Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 18 May 2025
  • The 69-year-old Augustinian missionary smiled and waved from the back of the truck to people waving U.S., Peruvian and other national flags, and stopped to bless some babies in the crowd.
    Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • The death of the 25-year-old British professional boxer was announced on Thursday, May 22, by her promoter, Boxxer, in a statement obtained by The Guardian.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 23 May 2025
  • Listen to this article 3 min Professional boxer Georgia O'Connor, 25, has died after a bout with cancer, the professional boxer's promoter, Boxxer, said.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Under current Catholic doctrine, only men may become priests, based on the belief that Jesus chose male apostles.
    Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
  • Paprocki said he was struck by Pope Francis’ joy and reflected that the pontiff spoke to Paprocki and the other bishops with him not as a boss, but as a fellow apostle tasked with the same mission all priests have — to passionately advance their faith.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 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
  • An excerpt from our conversation is later in this newsletter. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Ever since companies began to use enterprise AI, advocates have continually said that the technology wasn’t out to replace jobs, and that humans would always be a necessary part of the equation.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Even with the availability of federal vouchers and other housing aid, thousands of people remain bouncing between hotel rooms, living out of their cars or in other unstable housing situations, advocates said.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • The chaplains themselves are also much more diverse.
    Cornelia Powers, The Atlantic, 18 May 2025
  • There was no response, and several years later, when Ms. Kaczynski was near death, David contacted the prison chaplain.
    Serge F. Kovaleski, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025

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