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The word 'Guru' is correct and usable in written English
The word 'Guru' is typically used when referring to a wise and knowledgeable teacher or leader. For example, "The new CEO of the company will be our guru, guiding the team to success".
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guru
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A Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher.
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Cash is a drag on your portfolio, no less a figure than investment guru Jack Bogle has pronounced.
"Fast food with real ingredients" is the mantra of Loco'l, set up by street food guru Roy Choi and two-Michelin-starred chef Daniel Patterson.
One recent example of this would be Martin Ferguson, who after spending six years as the Labor government's resources minister took a job as chairman of APPEA, the peak body for the oil and gas industry (as I've mentioned here before, Abbott advisor and Liberal Party polling guru Mark Textor owns a company that is registered as a lobbyist for APPEA).
David Cameron's former strategy guru Steve Hilton has suggested bankers should be paid no more than senior civil servants as they rely on the implicit backing of the taxpayer.
Authors, Francis Elliot and James Hanning also chart the loss of faith in Cameron's relationship with his chief policy guru, Steve Hilton, who has just taken a year's sabbatical from his work at Downing Street to teach at a California university.
Gross once was guru, king, emperor and star of the show at his own firm.
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Guru-Murthy steps away from the movie – dangerous when you have eight minutes, an A-lister with a reputation and four bristling PRs in the room.
And then, with two minutes to go, Guru-Murthy plunges headfirst into drugs, alcoholism and daddy issues.
When Guru-Murthy pressed the point, Downey Jr responded: "Are we promoting a movie?" Saying that he wasn't a liberal, Republican or Democrat, the actor added: "I was talking to the person who was doing the interview that day, and that just happened to be my opinion.
In 2013, Tarantino had said to Guru-Murthy: "I'm shutting your butt down," after being pressed on the link between real and onscreen violence.
The broadcasters we have gathered for Weekend's shoot – Boulton, Webb, Jon Snow, Faisal Islam Boultonn's Sky News colleague and, at 37, the youngest political editor on TV), Krishnan Guru-Murthy of Channel 4 and the retired-from-election-duty but iconic Peter Snow – are players in this moment of real-time national drama.
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