disciple
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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
He’s a disciple of 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan, who is considered one of the top offensive schemers around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
Bratton was, like Gunn, a disciple of Broken Windows.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
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
The Gospel reading for Ash Wednesday is from the sixth chapter of Matthew—the chapter in which Jesus teaches the disciples to recite the Lord’s Prayer: “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
The usual suspects: crazed fans, wannabe disciples, and aspiring bounty hunters.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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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
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
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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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