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Recent Examples of revivalist
Most producers settle in and stop evolving at some point, developing a recognizable sound, but Jones was never one to get stuck in the past and dismissed as a revivalist, which helps explain why he was involved with Number One singles in three different decades.
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Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
His grandfather ran a Hindu martial arts training center, called an akhara, while his grandmother was the local head of the women’s wing of Arya Samaj, a Hindu revivalist movement that started in 1875 and has converted thousands of Christians and Muslims to Hinduism.
—Mohammad Ali, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2020
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
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Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
His grandfather ran a Hindu martial arts training center, called an akhara, while his grandmother was the local head of the women’s wing of Arya Samaj, a Hindu revivalist movement that started in 1875 and has converted thousands of Christians and Muslims to Hinduism.
—Mohammad Ali, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2020
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for revivalist
Noun
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If tech evangelists are right, the technology will become ubiquitous — and profitable.—
Darius Tahir | KFF Health News,
ABC News,
10 Jan. 2025
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Michael Saylor, the company’s executive chairman and a former Bitcoin skeptic, has become a prominent evangelist for the digital currency.—
David Yaffe-Bellany,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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With the source of the Nile running through the city, the area attracts tourists who come to raft the river’s rapids and bungee jump over the water, and houses international charity organizations and missionaries that want to set up outside the snarled traffic of Kampala.—
Greg Presto,
The Athletic,
16 Jan. 2025
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And thanks to another papal missionary, Augustine of Canterbury, the early Celtic church in England, adopted Roman Christian practice in the seventh century.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2025
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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
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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.—
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1 Dec. 2020
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Collins served as a Navy chaplain for two years in the 1990s and later joined the Air Force Reserve in 2002, being deployed to Iraq in 2008.—
Jared Gans,
The Hill,
14 Jan. 2025
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Collins, a chaplain in the Air Force Reserve and Iraq War veteran, launched an unsuccessful bid to represent Georgia in the Senate in 2020.—
Kaia Hubbard,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2025
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The Uttar Pradesh state, headed by Adityanath — a powerful Hindu monk and a popular hard-line Hindu politician in Modi’s party — has allocated more than $765 million for this year’s event.—
Sheikh Saaliq,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2025
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You’re meant to start along the edges and proceed clockwise, passing the pictures of monks, deities, or patrons in their neat squares.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
2 Jan. 2025
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The pastor at the church, Jose Cervantes, said the first fire refugees arrived at the church on Tuesday.—
Suzanne Gamboa,
NBC News,
16 Jan. 2025
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The pastors, Max Lucado and Joakim Lundqvist, have been serving in the roles since last summer.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Jan. 2025
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Specifically, the nuns pointed a finger at Urbain Grandier—a local priest and their confessor.—
Amelia Soth,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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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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