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guru

[goor-oo, goo-roo] / ˈgʊər u, gʊˈru /
NOUN
mentor, guide
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The average year sees the New York Stock Exchange experience 21 days when downside volume is 80% or more of the action, according to BTIG’s technical guru Jonathan Krinsky.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

He set up a campus with co-working spaces, a high-end gym and meals designed by longevity guru Bryan Johnson.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

The vision that bore his name became Auroville in 1968 through the work of his French-born spiritual companion Mirra Alfassa, who herself became a guru known as "The Mother".

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

For twenty years, a series of presidents and many ordinary Americans viewed him as a financial guru, and a talisman against bad times.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

He wouldn’t have looked for alternative treatments or a guru or some faulty gene to blame.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Variant was founded in 2009 by the now CIO of asset manger Prevatt Capital, Jonathan Tepper, under a belief that “robust, repeatable tools work better than gurus with crystal balls.”

From MarketWatch Mar. 5, 2026

Beauty founder Patrick Starrr, fashion designer Aimee Song and the Home Edit’s organizational gurus Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin are some of DBA’s clients.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 4, 2026

His father scoffed at the self-help gurus and nurtured his interest in business.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 15, 2026

Baba is a commonly used term in India to refer to mystics and religious gurus and also to fathers or grandfathers by both Hindus and Muslims.

From BBC Feb. 12, 2026

Cadres of expensive professionals—lawyers, accountants, computer gurus, helpline responders—drain vast sums of money from the economy to clarify poorly drafted text.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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