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Recent Examples of evangelist
Last spring, during one of my reconnaissance trips to Los Angeles, a friend suddenly gripped my elbow like an evangelist.
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Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
Bailey was part of a small army of bitcoin fanatics who indoctrinated Trump in all things bitcoin and helped turned him from a skeptic to an evangelist.
—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2024
After seeing Tammy Faye, the biographical musical about the late American evangelist Tammy Faye Messner, her son, Jay Bakker, hopped on a video call with Elton John, who wrote the music for it.
—Brian Anthony Hernandez, People.com, 13 Oct. 2024
Analysis by Allison Morrow | CNN New York — AI hasn’t quite delivered the job-killing, cancer-curing utopia that the technology’s evangelists are peddling.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2024
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Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
Bailey was part of a small army of bitcoin fanatics who indoctrinated Trump in all things bitcoin and helped turned him from a skeptic to an evangelist.
—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2024
After seeing Tammy Faye, the biographical musical about the late American evangelist Tammy Faye Messner, her son, Jay Bakker, hopped on a video call with Elton John, who wrote the music for it.
—Brian Anthony Hernandez, People.com, 13 Oct. 2024
Analysis by Allison Morrow | CNN New York — AI hasn’t quite delivered the job-killing, cancer-curing utopia that the technology’s evangelists are peddling.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evangelist
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Flashback: Election Central used to draw a crowd of the general public, from high school classes and youth groups to political junkies, activists and professional consultants, all standing shoulder-to-shoulder with officials ready to take a victory lap with an entourage of supporters.Andrew Keatts, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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There’s always been a trade-off with the platform’s ability to narrow the distance between activists and people in positions of power.Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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The cat-and-mouse thriller follows two young Mormon missionaries (Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East) who make the grave mistake of knocking on the door of a reclusive Englishman (Grant).Variety, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
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Attempts to catalogue them involve missionaries, brands, and a passion project run by a handful of linguists.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 5 Nov. 2024
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As president, Trump leaned even further into his role as a promoter of his own businesses.Zach Everson, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Kennedy has been a leading promoter of false theories about vaccines being linked to autism.Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
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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.Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
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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
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The chapel was meant to house relics of the martyrs and apostles, Rossi said.Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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The story goes that 13 guests attended the Last Supper—Jesus Christ and his 12 apostles—and the next day, Good Friday, was the day of Jesus’ crucifixion.Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 13 Sep. 2024
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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.al, al, 1 Dec. 2020
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Electric vehicle advocates were dismayed when General Motors suspended production of Chevrolet’s popular Bolt models, but the 2025 Equinox has many of the same admirable qualities, and EV consumers have responded accordingly.Peter Douglas, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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The bottom line: Trump's most dangerous weapon against the media is his words, which press freedom advocates have warned do have a significant chilling effect both at home and abroad.Sara Fischer, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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As the hour drew to a close, Levi challenged James about Ryan — and learned that the chaplain’s husband was dead.Charlie Mason, TVLine, 24 Oct. 2024
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Houston was a chaplain with the Georgia Department of Public Safety, the agency said in a Facebook post on Sunday, Oct. 20.David Chiu, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Evangelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evangelist. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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