charismatic

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Mesa County Sheriff's Department officials at the time said they were investigating whether Johnson, who is known as a charismatic person, was assisted by other inmates or jail personnel.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characterized by charisma: "the warmth of a naturally charismatic leader” (Joyce Carol Oates).
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or being a type of Christianity that emphasizes personal religious experience and divinely inspired powers, as of healing, prophecy, and the gift of tongues.
  3. noun A member of a Christian charismatic group or movement.

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  • Mesa County Sheriff's Department officials at the time said they were investigating whether Johnson, who is known as a charismatic person, was assisted by other inmates or jail personnel. —  GJSentinel - Latest News Headlines
  • It has been almost half a century since the left's ideas have had such an intelligent, charismatic, and appealing advocate. —  The Rule of Reason
  • He was clean cut, charismatic, and a hell of a dancer. —  Starpulse Entertainment News
  • He is smart, charismatic, and has been through the public perception war against a popular Democrat (Bill Clinton). —  The Moderate Voice
  • Monte (as everyone seems to have called the charismatic hero whom Armenia now honors) graduated from Berkeley, traveled the world, and by the late 1970s found his way into radical groups that practiced the kind of violent hostage-taking and assassinations which we associate with the more visible Red Army Faction, Irish Republican Army and Red Brigades of those years. —  GreenCine Daily
 

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/kærɪzˈmætɪk/
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