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transcendental

[tran-sen-den-tl, -suhn-] / ˌtræn sɛnˈdɛn tl, -sən- /
ADJECTIVE
surpassing
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For several years, Lynch harnessed his musical connections to raise funds and awareness for the David Lynch Foundation, established to promote the benefits of Transcendental Meditation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025

“The Transcendental writers including Thoreau, Emerson and Hawthorne were very important to her view of literature,” Ms. Lee said.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2022

The second disc opens with the Wagner transcription and includes Ronald Stevenson’s arrangement of the adagio from Mahler’s 10th Symphony and Liszt’s “Harmonies du Soir,” his Transcendental Étude No. 11.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2022

Transcendental meditation and Lexapro help, he said, and this year, he found a kindred, anxious spirit in Jesse Eisenberg, who directed him in the upcoming dramedy “When You Finish Saving the World.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2021

I can hardly remember now what it was all about, but I was a total mess then, having just split up with Salim’s dad and not yet having discovered Transcendental Meditation.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd




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