evangelist

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Recent Examples of evangelist Guy Kawasaki, who was Jobs’ chief evangelist at Apple, really knew Steve Jobs. Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024 Tom Raftery, a technology evangelist and podcaster focusing on sustainability and EVs, offered a more critical perspective. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024 In 2022, London’s Almeida Theatre became home to Elton John‘s campy musical Tammy Faye, about the life of evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024 In the 1980s, the Pentecostal televangelist Jimmy Swaggart used his personal column in his ministry’s magazine to endorse evangelist Pat Robertson’s campaign for president. Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for evangelist
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Noun
  • Meanwhile, Dallas activist and head of an organization called Next Generation Action Network Dominique Alexander met with Frisco Police Tuesday behind closed doors.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Washington prosecutors’ case against Martin is the latest blow against Declare Emergency, a climate activist group that aims to draw attention to the warming climate.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Instead of forcing women to accept their message, missionaries encouraged voluntary reform.
    Jenna Deep, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Alfredo Sosa/Staff In 1830, likely seeing it as a means of survival, a Shawnee chief invited a missionary to the reservation to help educate members of his tribe in the ways of white Americans.
    Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The merger proposal drew concern from competing concert promoters and venue owners, who claimed at the time that combining Ticketmaster and Live Nation would force them to work with their largest competitor.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The concept of WrestleMania was created by Vince McMahon, a second-generation wrestling promoter who served as the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) for four decades before resigning from his role with the company in 2024.
    Mark LaSota, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But if her Blind Audition was any indication, The Voice might have just found its next great jazz revivalist.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 25 Feb. 2025
  • To celebrate, the UK post-punk revivalists will play the record in full, plus other hits from their catalog, on an anniversary tour of North America later this year.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • There was speculation that the scene was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic painting The Last Supper, depicting Jesus’s last meal with the 12 apostles, which in turn sparked claims that the tableau was an insult to the Christian faith.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 5 Mar. 2025
  • So just how does an under 30 bro become an apostle of small business networking? Larsen grew up in Tacoma, Washington, and studied entrepreneurship at Boise State.
    Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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
  • Foods That Will Keep You Full Without Spiking Your Blood Sugar Learn more about our advocates A Quick Review People with type 2 diabetes do not produce enough or resist insulin.
    Julia Ries, Health, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Sellner has been an outspoken advocate for the rights of mothers in Germany.
    Asif Burhan, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Some floor aides and police officers also had to stay up all night to accommodate the speech, Senate chaplain Barry Black said.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 2 Apr. 2025
  • For the premiere episode of the show’s final season, McBride came up with his most audacious stylistic detour yet: a stand-alone prologue set in 1862 that depicts one of the Gemstones’ ancestors conning his way into a chaplain position during the Civil War.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 9 Mar. 2025

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