disciple
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As a disciple of positional play, he draws comparisons between his football and chess.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Back home, Pulte’s circle included another Coe disciple, a Michigan business leader named Mike Timmis, who facilitated Fellowship mission work known as Cornerstone Development in Uganda.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026
He is a disciple of lean management techniques developed in Japan that focus on collaboration and continuous improvement.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
Oh my, Cori, this being a legacy triumph for coach Cori Close, a John Wooden disciple who led through thoughtful motivation instead of mindless screaming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026
Part of her yearned to go to Elowen immediately; she sensed that Elowen would welcome her as a disciple.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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To Altman and the disciples of his work, chatbots are tools for empathy.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
His book, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783, published in 1890, found disciples in Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the Japanese imperial naval ministry, and shaped 20th-century history.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
We are called to be missionary disciples who go out and make disciples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
In sermons seen by the BBC, the London ICC - which is the largest - said it was aiming for 400 "disciples" by the end of 2025.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026
The source of that confidence was a sustained programme of advertising the new science through public lectures and books conducted by the disciples of Newton, above all by Desaguliers.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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“I mean, we’re being taught and discipled by so many other communities outside the church, that we’re being malformed in many ways.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
“They’re often being discipled by the blogosphere and by the latest, greatest celebrity,” Prior told me.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2019
The other is slower, slope-shouldered & discipled, backgrounded by a blandished brain.
From Unmanned by Oliver, Stephen
He preached, he taught, he "discipled" in every form then reasonable and possible, and in the fullest sense of his Master's missionary charge.
From Life of William Carey by Smith, George
We begin to talk also of many other things concerning the discipled natives.
From Life of William Carey by Smith, George
“The church needs to do a better job in discipling these celebrities when they become interested in the teachings of Jesus Christ,” Fisher said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2022
About a third of Americans do freelance work, according to a study commissioned by the Freelancer’s Union, and rating systems are extremely effective at organizing and discipling them.
From The Verge ● Oct. 28, 2015
Hammered by defectors and opponents, the Boston Church admits some disciplers may have gone too far and says it will "readjust" its discipling practices.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Who will tarry in Jerusalem awaiting the coming Spirit, and then, the Comforter having come, be ready to "Go into all the world, discipling all nations"?
From The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Rees, Byron J. (Byron Johnson)
Our Lord's command was world-embracing in its extent; it was a discipling of all nations; it was a call to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth.
From India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by Jones, John P. (John Peter)
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