1
as in expert
a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field
one of those weather gurus that the television networks always drag out whenever there's a big blizzard brewing
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as in practitioner
one who brings an art or science to full realization
the leading guru of electronic music in the 1960s
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Recent Examples of guru
Disney reportedly hired a social media guru to vet any further online posts from Zegler between the election and the film’s March release.
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Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
For those health-focused, a partnership with wellness guru Dr. Andrew Weil includes such experiences as a chakra-balancing crystal sound bath.
—AFAR Media, 3 July 2025
The mobile network carriers were also excited by the Moto X, though at least partly for self-serving reasons, according to Randall, the supply chain guru.
—Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 5 July 2025
After that, our Senior Beauty Editor Akili King hosted a panel with beauty gurus Amber Nicole, Princess Rese, and Kristen Noel Crawley about representation and the definition of beauty.
—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 5 July 2025
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Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
For those health-focused, a partnership with wellness guru Dr. Andrew Weil includes such experiences as a chakra-balancing crystal sound bath.
—AFAR Media, 3 July 2025
The mobile network carriers were also excited by the Moto X, though at least partly for self-serving reasons, according to Randall, the supply chain guru.
—Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 5 July 2025
After that, our Senior Beauty Editor Akili King hosted a panel with beauty gurus Amber Nicole, Princess Rese, and Kristen Noel Crawley about representation and the definition of beauty.
—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 5 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guru
Noun
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Though Haack's solo show may be canceled, the design expert has been working on another special project — her very own champagne line called Clé Cachée.—
Natalia Senanayake,
People.com,
21 July 2025
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As the deadline approaches for Congress to renew the U.S. Farm Bill, agricultural experts and farmers are calling on legislators to prioritize protecting topsoil in the Midwest and throughout the country, especially as the federal government is withdrawing from conservation initiatives.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
21 July 2025
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That worries Glen Kila, a Hawaiian cultural practitioner in Waianae, who is not related to Darius Kila.—
Jennifer Sinco Kelleher,
Los Angeles Times,
12 July 2025
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Many women stopped using hormone therapy because of the study, and some practitioners no longer recommended it for their patients.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN Money,
11 July 2025
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Prior to running The Pitt's emergency department like a pro, the master was just a med student on ER.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
15 July 2025
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Moore connected with Fiorito, then an Arizona State University master of fine arts student, in 2004.—
Laura Gersony,
AZCentral.com,
15 July 2025
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In the audio world, Audeze is known as the leading exponent of planar-magnetic headphones, an advanced driver technology that produces sound in a different way to the more usual dynamic drivers found in most headphones.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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Specifically, your function has to be a polynomial — a combination of variables raised to whole-number exponents and multiplied by coefficients.—
Stephen Ornes,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Mar. 2025
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But true seasonal scholars know autumn actually begins when Bath & Body Works drops their fall candle collection—and something inside us shifts.—
Katie Ann Lehman,
StyleCaster,
25 July 2025
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Who better to run the U.S. military than a Sapphic scholar from south of the border?—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
25 July 2025
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The digital adept also had a nearly eight-year stretch at Teen Vogue.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
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Slot shares this staple of Tottenham counterpart Ange Postecoglou’s attacking principles, with Porro adept at tucking inside to disrupt the opposition shape.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Much of Superman's second act is spent inside a 'pocket dimension' used by Lex Luthor and his LuthorCorp scientists and tech wizards.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
17 July 2025
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The company announced a TV series based on all seven books about the boy wizard written by J.K. Rowling.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
14 July 2025
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Perhaps the most systematic attempt to bring order to this chaos comes from Google DeepMind, which in July 2024 proposed a framework with five levels of AGI performance: emerging, competent, expert, virtuoso, and superhuman.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
8 July 2025
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Even with Caitlin Clark once again sidelined, the Fever have been able to count on the virtuoso scoring talent of Kelsey Mitchell and the veteran expertise of Natasha Howard to help stabilize them.—
Devin Robertson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 July 2025
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“Guru.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guru. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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