disciple

Example Sentences

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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

Ward considers himself a Boglehead, or a disciple of John Bogle, the Vanguard founder who preached holding index funds and seldom making changes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

From the Apollo moon landing and Woodstock to the Stonewall riots and the Harlem Cultural Festival, there wasn’t a disciple or demographic that was not directly affected over that stretch.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

It marked Barker’s first game at Crypto.com Arena — a milestone for the self-proclaimed “Mamba Mentality” disciple, stepping up for a depleted backcourt.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2025

Similarly, Montaigne’s disciple Charron in De la sagesse twice uses faict to mean fact—but in neither case does Samson Lennard’s English translation of 1608 feel it can use the English word ‘fact’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton