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disciple

[dih-sahy-puhl] / dɪˈsaɪ pəl /


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Ive, Apple’s design chief and a longtime Jobs disciple, departed Apple in 2019, reportedly frustrated with the company’s heavy focus on operations.

From MarketWatch Aug. 29, 2026

She was a disciple of the anatomy-based, apparatus-free gymnastics 'Swedish system', and this specialism defined her teaching.

From BBC Jul. 23, 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

Aristotle was a disciple of Plato, and to start with, this seems to have been his position too.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

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

The 1,500-year-old Shaolin Temple - located on a mountain range - attracts thousands of disciples from China and elsewhere every year.

From BBC May 29, 2026

It and “The Faithful” join “The Chosen,” the story of Jesus and his disciples now in its fifth season, along with “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints,” a Fox Nation production.

From Salon Mar. 29, 2026

We are called to be missionary disciples who go out and make disciples.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

He turned the same charm he had used to gather pupils for his Spanish dance class to collecting a growing number of disciples.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

“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

We begin to talk also of many other things concerning the discipled natives.

From Life of William Carey by George Smith

The other is slower, slope-shouldered & discipled, backgrounded by a blandished brain.

From Unmanned by Stephen Oliver

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 George Smith

“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

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 John P. (John Peter) Jones

Love's discipling touch that seems at the moment like anger is only for a moment.

From Quiet Talks on Service by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon




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