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mantra

[man-truh, mahn-, muhn-] / ˈmæn trə, ˈmɑn-, ˈmʌn- /


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Still, SpaceX continues to dominate the global space launch market, thanks to its partially reusable Falcon rockets, and has made risk-taking its mantra.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

It was a mantra coined by the tech giant Meta and used until 2012, which came to define the bad old days of social media running riot in a feeding frenzy of user data.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

But Zuckerberg’s move-fast-and-break-things mantra has broken a lot of things over the years, including his users’ trust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Nowadays, the value of “low-cost index funds” is a universal mantra on Wall Street.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

She said it over and over, like it wasn’t a verb so much as a Buddhist mantra.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

I was staring at my 61-year-old reflection as I repeated these mantras suggested by my new therapist SuzAnn, embarrassed at the idiocy although I lived alone in a small West L.A. guesthouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Buddhist mantras should be chanted while the baby is being delivered, but he can't remember the words, so he plays them from his phone on speaker instead.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

Ahead of the speeches, a choir sang as attendees photographed a large panel emblazoned with one of Jackson's mantras "keep hope alive."

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

“Proximity is power!” he wrote, quoting one of Robbins’s signature mantras, in a caption for the photo snapped at Mar-a-Lago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

I sat in the stands with headphones over my hijab and my eyes closed, focused on my mantras and my breathing.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad




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