evangelist
Example Sentences
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Fred’s boss is a man of “slightly unhinged intensity,” whom Fred has seen, more than once, “weep on cue, before the entire district, like a fund-raising evangelist.”
The event's headliner, child actor turned evangelist Kirk Cameron, hadn't yet arrived.
From Salon
Pettit is the first president in the school’s history not to be related to the late evangelist Bob Jones Sr., who founded the school in 1927.
From Washington Post
Sometimes the world does not need attractive, powerful evangelists as much as it needs people who take a crucified savior seriously.
From Seattle Times
Fast and fizzy and relentlessly buoyant, “Tetris” finds its heart in the connection between these two men, the game’s modest creator and its tenacious evangelist.
From New York Times
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