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meditate

[med-i-tayt] / ˈmɛd ɪˌteɪt /


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Could they meditate as the day winds down?

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

He started the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace in 2005 to offer children throughout the world the opportunity to learn to meditate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

In a 15-slide post on his personal Instagram account, Fifa president Gianni Infantino tells his critics to "meditate, pray or watch a football match" instead of "spreading hate and false rumours" about his leadership.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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

There, at noon and again at around three in the afternoon, unnoticed by others in the furniture store, we would rinse our hands, faces and mouths, and softly meditate.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Salah meditates for 15–20 minutes every day, either before sleep or upon waking, focusing on his goals and maintaining clarity.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

On the remarkable and moving “Little Gears,” a waltz-time number built atop piano and brushed drums, she meditates on a spider weaving a web.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025

A Forest Therapy participant meditates against a large tree in the Huntington’s cypress grove.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

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

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 meditated for 15 minutes, listening to a recording of the Indian yogi and mystic Sadhguru repeating: “I am not the body. I am not even the mind.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Because the thing about Miles Davis is that he teaches people who have never meditated how to stop and be coherent about absoluteness.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

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

I meditated upon the peculiar circumstance, that but a half mile away, across the Neck, my former companions—good Mr. G—g among them—glowered back from the fortifications at Roxbury.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Along with muscle-relaxing injections, Ella says she is also meditating to try to reduce her anxiety and free herself from the tension she regularly carries.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

"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

The shift in energy I experienced while meditating showed up on the results of my brain scan.

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

“I have been meditating upon today’s lesson of obedience,” I say.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein


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