sabora

American  

[suh-bawr-uh, -bohr-uh] / səˈbɔr ə, -ˈboʊr ə /

noun

(often initial capital letter)

PLURAL

saboraim

1. one of a group of Jewish scholars, active in the rabbinical academies of Babylonia during the 6th century a.d., whose editing of the work of the Babylonian amoraim constituted the final stage in the preparation of the Babylonian Gemara.

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Etymology

Origin of sabora

< Aramaic sābhōrā scholar, thinker, derivative of səbhār to think

Example Sentences

“We finally got to a place where that ban was going to be lifted, we would see sustainability, we would see a massive shift in our current state of infectious disease,” said Chad Sabora, vice president of government and public relations at the Indiana Center for Recovery, a treatment center.

From New York Times

"We don't have the infrastructures nor the interventions to properly spend that money to be most effective," Sabora says.

From Salon

Chad Sabora, the cofounder and executive director of the Missouri Network for Opiate Reform and Recovery, in St. Louis, is one of the region's leading voices for harm reduction.

From Salon

Sabora harbors doubts that, in Missouri at least, the federal dollars earmarked for harm-reduction services will truly reach them.

From Salon

Sabora notes that he has tried for years to set up legal needle exchanges and safe injection sites in the St. Louis region — programs that have long been in place in such European nations as Switzerland, the Netherlands and Portugal, with decades of well-documented evidence to back up their safety and efficacy.

From Salon