evangelist
noun
Examples of evangelist in a Sentence
Sarah Pulliam Bailey, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
This last point has recently transformed me into a pole evangelist.
—Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2024
Fairfax has become one of the nation’s top beaver evangelists, gaining fans with her stop-motion animation video showing how beaver wetlands can slow the intensity of wildfire, and for her concept of Smokey the Beaver as a counterpart to the Fire Service’s ursine poster child for fire suppression.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
Sentencing guidelines recommend that the disgraced crypto evangelist serves up to 110 years behind bars, though prosecutors are asking for about half of that.
—Rafael Nam, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
The disruptive tech evangelist and AI champion recently lowered her exposure to the AI semiconductor space, selling $4.5 million worth of share in Nvidia.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2024
Solar eclipses are now big business and less in need of an evangelist, said Kevin Reardon, a Williams alumnus and now a scientist with the National Solar Observatory and the University of Colorado Boulder, in an interview.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Although starting a charcoal grill requires a little more effort than propane grills, charcoal evangelists like pitmaster Patrick Feges, owner of Feges BBQ in Houston, firmly believe the effort is worth the difference in flavor.
—Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2024
The life of the late American evangelist is the subject of Tammy Faye, a new musical with music from legendary songwriter Elton John and lyrics by Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears.
—Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
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evangelist
noun
Middle English evangelist "one of the writers of the four Gospels," from early French and Latin evangelista (same meaning), from Greek euangelizein "to preach the gospel," from euangelion "good news, gospel," from eu- "good" and angelos "messenger, angel"
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