rishi

[rish-ee]

noun

Hinduism.

1. an inspired sage or poet.

2. (initial capital letter),  one of seven of these to whom the Vedas supposedly were revealed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rishi¹

First recorded in 1760–70, rishi is from the Sanskrit word ṛṣi

Example Sentences

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as an adviser, following his appointment to a similar role at Goldman Sachs.

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Rishi Sunak has taken up paid adviser roles at tech giant Microsoft and artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic.

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Former British prime minister Rishi Sunak will take up senior advisory roles at US companies Microsoft and Anthropic -- an AI startup -- according to a UK government document published Thursday.

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“Cultural inputs used to be these macro inputs that we almost got at the same time,” said Rishi Malhotra, the Gen X founder and chief executive officer of Cafeteria, which polls teenagers about likes and dislikes through its app.

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The new system prompted Indian outsourcing-services firms—which provide technology services to American clients through a mix of U.S.-based workers and teams in India—to flood the system with numerous petitions to increase their chances of securing H-1B visas, according to analysis by economists Rishi R. Sharma and Chad Sparber of Colgate University.

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