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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

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

The judge notes that Mr. Hegseth relies on “the well-established doctrine” that members of the military enjoy less rigorous First Amendment protection given the need for military order and disciple.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

And he has the teacher’s fear of being surpassed by the student, the master’s dread of having the disciple discredit his work.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

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

In the Book of Mark, when Jesus sent his disciples out into the world, he told them to bring no food or money, because good people would take care of them.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 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

He raged against the system, if only to his own disciples, calling for a day when scythes would have no limits on gleaning.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

“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 Stephen Oliver

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

From Life of William Carey by George Smith

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

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 Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees




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