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disciple

[dih-sahy-puhl] / dɪˈsaɪ pəl /


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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 letter is a road map for helping Catholics grow as disciples and then become disciple makers themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

“It’s where I’ve always been raised, coming from the SEC, you’ve got to run that ball, and me being a Nick Saban disciple, that’s just my thought process, right?”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2025

In Florence, however, Galileo’s disciple Torricelli heard in 1643 of Berti’s experiments and realized that he could simplify matters by using a denser liquid.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

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

The letter is a road map for helping Catholics grow as disciples and then become disciple makers themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

William’s voice could now be heard throughout the monastery: “Just as peasants can be popes and Jews can teach us the Bible and women can be disciples of Jesus, Muslims can save your very life!”

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

“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

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 Smith, George

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

From Unmanned by Oliver, Stephen

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

From Life of William Carey by Smith, George

“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

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

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

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 Jones, John P. (John Peter)




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