variants
or ch'i
also qi
as in energy
a spiritual force that is held to emanate from or give animation to living beings
the concept of chi is of central importance in acupuncture
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Recent Examples of chi
Try the Five Elements treatment, crafted to balance our chi.
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Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 8 May 2025
Snake plants, also called sword plants, cut through negative energy and uplift the chi in a home office, Morris says.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Mar. 2025
How does a young man with perfectly flowing chi and an EpiPen in his glove compartment wind up puffy faced and dead just off the Van Wyck Expressway?
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
Chief among its design is its challenging AI that seems impervious to previous game exploits like charging your chi from a safe distance and cheesing damage by unleashing raw supers.
—Isaiah Colbert, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024
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Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 8 May 2025
Snake plants, also called sword plants, cut through negative energy and uplift the chi in a home office, Morris says.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Mar. 2025
How does a young man with perfectly flowing chi and an EpiPen in his glove compartment wind up puffy faced and dead just off the Van Wyck Expressway?
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
Chief among its design is its challenging AI that seems impervious to previous game exploits like charging your chi from a safe distance and cheesing damage by unleashing raw supers.
—Isaiah Colbert, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chi
Noun
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Nightly entertainment, including magic shows and live music, brings energy to the evenings.—
Allison Tibaldi,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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Rebecca Hall plays Rosenkrantz and Ben Whishaw plays Hujar, who offers a detailed account of his previous day’s activity, involving such idiosyncratic eminences as Susan Sontag and Allen Ginsberg—and the sorts of gamesmanship and intimate tensions that ensnare and frustrate artistic energies.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Our foul, flatulent father-figure may exaggerate a bit when belittling his enemies (and friends, for that matter), but cloaked under his aura of filth — like an adult Pig-Pen’s toxic dust cloud — rests a core truth.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
24 Sep. 2025
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Dodging its attacks against the trainers is paramount, as is collecting aura that can power up your own Pokémon to do their own temporary Mega Evolutions.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Chi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chi. Accessed 27 Sep. 2025.
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