meditate
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Could they meditate as the day winds down?
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
Every month the group meets in a different city park to do yoga and meditate together, and they also come together for online meditation sessions over Zoom.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Buddhism-themed tourism is thriving and tens of thousands of locals and foreigners sign up every year for "temple stay" retreats where they eat simple monastic food, do chores and meditate.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
I try to meditate on that, because I want this opportunity that I’m having to be as special for the 300 people that are around me who are doing this with me.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
He would try to sit in his office and read and meditate until he could be calm and start again.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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Bishnoi meditates every morning and fasts many days of the month, the cousin said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
She added that before every show she meditates, has an extensive vocal warm-up and "runs sections of the show".
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
He tells people to meditate, but never meditates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2025
Frazier said the garden has given her a place for more than just growing food — it’s where she meditates, connects with nature, and makes friends, too.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
She meditates a lot so during her class break it ain’t unusual to see her sitting on the desk with her legs folded and her arms crossed.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
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He relied on care packages sent by family and friends, exercised, meditated and kept journals that he later used to write his book.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
I don’t think I meditated particularly well, though I did sit entirely still for 45-minute long stretches, a triumph for this restless fidgeter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
He meditated and prayed to archangels as an attempt to pull himself back together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
Chelsea, in Oregon, meditated on the decision of whether or not to have kids for about a year after she started doubting it during the pandemic.
From Salon ● May 10, 2025
He meditated resentfully on the physical texture of life.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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"We're not saying it's all about just being spiritual and sitting under a tree and meditating," said Bovarnick.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Before I started meditating I worried that doing it would make me lose my edge, and I didn’t want to lose the fire to make stuff,” Lynch wrote in “Room to Dream.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Even after I stopped meditating, my theta-wave activation was 13% higher than it was before I started.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
He spends chapters meditating on trauma and fatherhood, on periods of feeling spiritually adrift, on coming to love a “majestic” faith tradition while remaining connected to the rowdy evangelicals of his childhood.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
“You meditating now? Swami Sweetwine has a certain ring.”
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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