pandit

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Recent Examples of pandit Her grandmother isn’t a pandit – in India, as well as in Indian diaspora communities, that’s been a domain that is largely populated by men, with cultural mores at play. Deepti Hajela, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2021 Her father worked as a pandit -- or Hindu priest -- at a temple, and visited homes to perform rituals. Vedika Sud, Esha Mitra and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 11 June 2021 Juneja's story is in many ways a typical one, said Sapna Pandya, a Washington, D.C.-based pandit, the title given to Hindu religious scholars and priests who perform wedding and other spiritual rituals. NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021 The wedding ceremony was a traditional Hindu ceremony performed by a pandit (priest). Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pandit
Noun
  • Thematic fashion stories and product photography captured at the hotel will live on the Michael Kors website and in emails, while the brand’s social account will feature additional Ibiza insights, including interviews with local talents from a ceramic artist to a local yogi.
    Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The Save Soil movement, spearheaded by Indian yogi, Sadhguru, has inspired people beyond the realms of agriculture and soil science by reframing soil health as a global human responsibility.
    Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
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
  • As anti-aging gurus will tell you, collagen is a large molecule that help gives skin its firm, smooth appearance.
    Alison Escalante, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Meghan McCain and Bethenny Frankel are criticizing the aspiring lifestyle guru as Mindy Kaling defended misconceptions surrounding her friend in a recent interview.
    Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Bauer fled to Denmark in 1936 and then to Sweden in 1943, after a Danish rabbi warned that the occupying Germans were about to round up all the Jews in the country.
    Gary J. Bass, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Poland’s chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, said members of the Jewish community would miss him greatly.
    Vanessa Gera, Sun Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • And certainly, in the playoffs in the end of the year, Jayden Daniels sitting in the pocket, beating pressure, so much of that again with his poise and intellect and accuracy with his arm, and again, just really, really rare to see that.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 Feb. 2025
  • While all of this is going on, Rowan, trapped in the Victrola (which Julien has staged like a Victorian pub, for some reason), is just blowing through lore exposition thanks to her suddenly unencumbered intellect.
    Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • So hoped some intellectuals during the Enlightenment who saw the nation as a carrier of a universalist spirit.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • This critique involved not just intellectuals on the left, but also famous American realists who played a key part in rallying U.S. liberal opinion to resist Nazism and Stalinism.
    Anatol Lieven, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Natalia is currently studying for her GED, dreaming of one day becoming a teacher, People reports.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Nearly a year later, in October 2024, the Steubenville teacher and thousands of other pro-lifers (including some of his students) converged on Capitol Square in Columbus for the Ohio March for Life.
    Jack Butler, National Review, 20 Feb. 2025

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“Pandit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pandit. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

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