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: a professed or accepted leader of some hope or cause
security, which the political messiahs promise—
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They thought the new principal was the messiah the school had been hoping for.
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All to transform a once fringe-politician who got by through controversial statements and military sympathy into a manipulative messiah for those in the far-right.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Jan. 2025
Stealing the show is German actor Nina Hoss as the CEO of the company, leering over Zoom work meetings like a god phoning in from Mount Olympus, coolly detached and formidably out of touch as a corporate messiah.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2024
Aron Fromm, Casey Rupp) — In a future where no one can die and no one wants to live anymore, two space pirate brothers must destroy an evil messiah to break the curse of immortality and deliver humanity to its final resting place.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2024
Messianic Zionists in Israel and Armageddon evangelicals in America believe this will incarnate their respective, and different, messiahs.
—Caise D. Hassan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Oct. 2024
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Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Jan. 2025
Stealing the show is German actor Nina Hoss as the CEO of the company, leering over Zoom work meetings like a god phoning in from Mount Olympus, coolly detached and formidably out of touch as a corporate messiah.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2024
Aron Fromm, Casey Rupp) — In a future where no one can die and no one wants to live anymore, two space pirate brothers must destroy an evil messiah to break the curse of immortality and deliver humanity to its final resting place.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2024
Messianic Zionists in Israel and Armageddon evangelicals in America believe this will incarnate their respective, and different, messiahs.
—Caise D. Hassan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for messiah
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“Messiah.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/messiah. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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