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Shaktis

noun

variants also Saktis
plural of Shakti
as in spirits

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  1. spirits
  2. lives
  3. souls
Noun
  • Upstairs, on the top floor, the bar serves vintage hard-to-get champagne and spirits by the glass.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The 13 months since have become a collective effort to lift the spirits of Brotheron, who has also played alongside artists like Patty Griffin, Caroline Herring, Rodney Hayden, and Andy Hedges.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of spirits
Noun
  • Making people’s lives better does not mean having a symbolic vote on something that goes to the Senate and dies — that’s what the Republicans have done for two years.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The Taliban’s return to power was swift, though preventing it had ostensibly been the entire point of the decades-long occupation, the bombs, the hundreds of thousands of lives lost.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of lives
Noun
  • These unfortunate souls were supposed to stay in their birthplace, hoping church charity would sustain them.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
  • On the one hand, Ema is the only one willing to lend all those wayward souls a moment of her time.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of souls
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“Shaktis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Shaktis. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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