variants
or less commonly Sakti
: the dynamic energy of a Hindu god personified as his female consort
broadly
: cosmic energy as conceived in Hindu thought
Examples of Shakti in a Sentence
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In a key flashback, Rana—acting on Shakti’s orders—clears out Kid’s forest-adjacent village so the land can be used for industrial growth.
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Siddhant Adlakha, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
There’s also the matter of the movie’s main villain, Baba Shakti — a white-haired ultranationalist power broker who whips worshipful mobs into a frenzy and who may have looked a little too much like India’s prime minister Narendra Modi for Netflix.
—Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
Mat | $89 Give the gift of deeper recovery — for body and mind — this year with an acupressure mat from Shakti.
—Outside Run Editors, Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2022
Named Shakti and Shiva for Hindu deities, the streams were likely parts of other galaxies that merged with the Milky Way in its infancy between 12 billion and 13 billion years ago.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
By Armani Syed February 5, 2024 8:01 AM EST
Indian jazz band Shakti bagged Best Global Music Album for This Moment—their first studio release in 46 years—at Sunday’s 2024 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
—TIME, 5 Feb. 2024
With: Ranbir Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Tripti Dimri, Shakti Kapoor, Rashmika Mandanna, Charu Shankar, Prem Chopra, Suresh Oberoi, Babloo Prithiveeraj, Saloni Batra, Siddhant Karnick, Maganti Srinath.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 Dec. 2023
Enlarge / Anti-satellite weapons from Mission Shakti are displayed during Republic Day Parade on January 26, 2020 in New Delhi, India.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2023
But the 2014 death of Remember Shakti violinist U. Srinivas proved to be a devastating loss.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023
Siddhant Adlakha, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
There’s also the matter of the movie’s main villain, Baba Shakti — a white-haired ultranationalist power broker who whips worshipful mobs into a frenzy and who may have looked a little too much like India’s prime minister Narendra Modi for Netflix.
—Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
Mat | $89 Give the gift of deeper recovery — for body and mind — this year with an acupressure mat from Shakti.
—Outside Run Editors, Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2022
Named Shakti and Shiva for Hindu deities, the streams were likely parts of other galaxies that merged with the Milky Way in its infancy between 12 billion and 13 billion years ago.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
By Armani Syed February 5, 2024 8:01 AM EST
Indian jazz band Shakti bagged Best Global Music Album for This Moment—their first studio release in 46 years—at Sunday’s 2024 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
—TIME, 5 Feb. 2024
With: Ranbir Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Tripti Dimri, Shakti Kapoor, Rashmika Mandanna, Charu Shankar, Prem Chopra, Suresh Oberoi, Babloo Prithiveeraj, Saloni Batra, Siddhant Karnick, Maganti Srinath.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 Dec. 2023
Enlarge / Anti-satellite weapons from Mission Shakti are displayed during Republic Day Parade on January 26, 2020 in New Delhi, India.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2023
But the 2014 death of Remember Shakti violinist U. Srinivas proved to be a devastating loss.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023
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“Shakti.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Shakti. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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