revivalist

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Recent Examples of revivalist Screamin’ Scott Simon, the dynamic keyboard player for rock and roll revivalists Sha Na Na for more than 50 years, has died. Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024 Future Islands These Baltimore synth-pop revivalists have one of modern music’s most distinctive vocalists in Samuel T. Herring, who enunciates like David Bowie with a diction coach. Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2024 And lo, a cavalry of screen-ready revivalists has arrived to wage the End Times war against the satanic infantry. Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024 Before the march began, Ross Johnston, a revivalist who travels with the Let Us Worship movement stepped in front of the crowd to share a story about his childhood. Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 9 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for revivalist 
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Noun
  • Marcato Atlas 150 Pasta Machine $160 Williams Sonoma A selection of Italian cheese There are two types of people in this world: aperitivo-cheese evangelists and dessert-cheese evangelists.
    Sophie Dodd, Bon Appétit, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Guy Kawasaki, who was Jobs’ chief evangelist at Apple, really knew Steve Jobs.
    Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • These missionaries are a destabilizing influence in a territory dominated by another version of Christianity, established and spread by the colonizing Belgians, that emphasizes the supremacy of a white Jesus.
    Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • But Native numbers began to decline with the arrival of Spanish missionaries, who brought diseases for which Natives had no immunity, including smallpox, malaria and diphtheria.
    CalMatters, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
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
  • In Florida, school boards are considering whether to allow volunteers to serve as chaplains or religious representatives for willing students after a law was passed this year.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Manning the grill was Pastor David MacLellan, a Christian nationalist who is the chaplain for the Patriot Party of Arizona and subscribes to the extremist ideology of the Black Robe Regiment.
    David Gilbert, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In instances like these, the best thing to do is follow the advice of a Zen monk named Paul Loomans and befriend what scares you, which Burkeman references in his book.
    Renée Onque, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The book was written in response to the August 2008 assassination of Hindu monk Lakshmanananda Saraswati, also known as the Hindu Swami.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In the 1920s, at the tail end of World War I, Dr. William Goodwin–then pastor of Virginia’s historic Bruton Parish Church–wrote to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. with a petition to restore his hometown of Colonial Williamsburg.
    Cornelia Powers, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
  • There will be an Anglican funeral service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Va at 11:00 am on December 21, 2024, officiated by her pastor, The Rev. Jonathan Kell, rector of Church of Our Saviour, Oatlands.
    Fox News Staff, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Specifically, the nuns pointed a finger at Urbain Grandier—a local priest and their confessor.
    Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Its main purpose is not the creation of aesthetic beauty out of the materials at hand (life, pain) but selfishness: relieving the confessor’s desire to confess.
    Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Buddhist organizations, whose members are also known to skew older, have been trying to connect with younger people by updating the image of monastics, usually known for their no-nonsense asceticism.
    Koh Ewe, TIME, 13 May 2024
  • Over the past 2,000 years, Buddhist teachings have encountered distortions and alterations due to mistranslation and misinterpretation of Buddha-dharma by Buddhist patriarchs, eminent monastics, and Buddhist scholars.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023

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“Revivalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revivalist. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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