disciple
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He is a disciple of lean management techniques developed in Japan that focus on collaboration and continuous improvement.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
Ward considers himself a Boglehead, or a disciple of John Bogle, the Vanguard founder who preached holding index funds and seldom making changes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025
“It’s where I’ve always been raised, coming from the SEC, you’ve got to run that ball, and me being a Nick Saban disciple, that’s just my thought process, right?”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2025
Bisola Hephzibah Johnson, another former disciple, told the BBC she persuaded Marten not to return to Scoan in 2013 to carry out secret filming for her documentary, saying it would be too dangerous.
From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025
Copernicus’s disciple Rheticus, in the first published account of the Copernican theory, held back any reference to heliocentrism for as long as he possibly could, for fear of alienating his readers.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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