messiah
Example Sentences
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The patrons pause scrolling to glance at this unhinged, unwashed man wearing a crown of computer wires wrapped around his head like an IT messiah.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026
He's called himself a king and a messiah.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2025
Chalamet has already taken his boy messiah in the “Dune” movies to a dangerously dark place; his Dylan is cut from the same cloth, uncomfortable with the mantle thrust upon him.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024
"I'm the messiah… I'm Marvel Jesus!" proclaims Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool in his third lead outing as the acerbic, X-rated, genre-satirising anti-hero, who returns to cinemas on Thursday for the first time since 2018.
From BBC • Jul. 24, 2024
Does he really think he’s in the right, like he’s some kind of saint, a messiah for the forlorn?
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
Vocabulary lists containing messiah
World Religions
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The Princess Bride
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