Rasta
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A Polaris ticket includes priority boarding and baggage check, onboard amenities from Therabody and Saks Fifth Avenue and in-lounge shower suites, said United spokesperson Anoushah Rasta.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
The white walls and beams were scrawled with notes from guests: “© this island,” “The Rasta was here” and “Order the ribs.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2022
According to a now-outdated Postmates menu, Flavor Crazy sold Caribbean-infused soul food dishes, such as "flavor-crazy wings," macaroni and cheese, "Rasta Pasta," snapper and seafood rice.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2022
Selassie, an Orthodox Christian, may not have been a Rasta believer, insisting that he was not immortal, but Rastafarians still revere him as the Lion of Judah.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2021
It was a Rasta cap: the one Grover always wore.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
“But I think he is proud — well, Rastas don’t feel proud — but he has expressed to me that he feels very irie about what I’m doing with my work.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
Iyah V, a Rastafarian leader who sits on the nation’s nascent licensing authority, summed up concerns by pointing to the many suits and relatively few Rastas at the conference.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2016
“I don't think that we Rastas can say, ‘We have done all of these things, and therefore there’s automatic right.’
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2015
"It was not at all the way it was described to me. It's not a Rastafarian town. It's 100,000 Ethiopians and only a few hundred Rastas living on the outskirts," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2014
We were emissaries from the place the Rastas called Babylon Kingdom and we were free to travel anywhere in the world we desired.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2013
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