rabbis

noun

Definition of rabbisnext
plural of rabbi
as in intellectuals

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  1. intellectuals
  2. thinkers
  3. teachers
Noun
  • Other intellectuals, such as the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, maintain that English serves as yet another tool to entrench British and American culture.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • For example, the magazine played host to heated debates on the place of Christianity in Straits Chinese culture, given that some intellectuals associated Christian evangelism with attitudes of European racial supremacy.
    H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of intellectuals
Noun
  • Sauer’s optimism seems almost to be intended as a rebuke to the dour ideal of intellectual seriousness that runs from such canonical thinkers as Arthur Schopenhauer in the nineteenth century to Theodor Adorno in the twentieth.
    Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Solo Mindset Collaboration doesn’t happen with magical thinkers.
    Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of thinkers
Noun
  • The classrooms are full of eager young students, raising their hands to answer teachers' questions, comparing notes and studying together.
    Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Mussolini would later send teachers from the south to Italianize the region as part of a nationalist push.
    Toby Skinner, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of teachers
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rabbinic

rabbis

rabbit

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