meditate
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Could they meditate as the day winds down?
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
Some meditation apps also have in-built sound options that you can meditate to, though these sometimes come with a subscription cost.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
White had his players sit on the stage, meditate, push the audience’s buttons just so far, then rise to play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 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 ventured into the occult—organizing séances and planchette sessions at home, or meeting his friends to meditate at a crematorium at night.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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She still uses her devices daily, meditates, and regularly checks in with how she is feeling.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
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
For Haigh, the film meditates on a lot of personal ideas, but it’s ultimately about grief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2024
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 was about to have my brain scanned while I meditated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 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’ve never meditated, and as a writer on place, I was often in motion, crisscrossing the globe every week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2025
I meditated upon them when I made my way out before the orchestra, before the silent multitude of Boston’s finest citizens.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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When he isn’t being interrogated, he spends several hours a day meditating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 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
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
All of these things that I’ve been meditating on for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
“You meditating now? Swami Sweetwine has a certain ring.”
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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