ashram

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Recent Examples of ashram In 1969, Stamp moved to an ashram in India. Chad De Guzman, Time, 18 Aug. 2025 In 1980, after meeting the yogi Swami Muktananda at an ashram in the Catskills, Rashad began practicing Siddha yoga, which trains its followers to recognize the divinity in themselves and the surrounding world. Reggie Ugwu, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2025 About 90 minutes from Dallas, in a north Texas farming community home to more cows than people, sits an ashram where two Jain monks and documentary filmmakers, Sadhvi Siddhali Shree, 41, and Sadhvi Anubhuti, 42, are on a spiritual journey of a whole other kind. Kayla McCormick, NBC news, 23 Mar. 2025 This prestigious university, set up by Tagore in 1921, was an extension of the ashram and school started by his father Maharishi Debendranath Tagore. Condé Nast Traveller, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Nov. 2022 See All Example Sentences for ashram
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Noun
  • Save the monastery, or the life of one individual monk.
    Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026
  • For her clients seeking to go beyond the Greek islands, Evyssa Vacations’ Dali organizes exclusive truffle hunting outings in Metsovo, home to the Vlach shepherd community; stays atop a private mountain at the Grand Forest Metsovo; and visits to Meteora monasteries in the nearby Thessaly.
    Yulia Denisyuk, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • His sister is a smart square peg who took off running at the end of Season 3; in the new season, the family is trying to find her, a trip that takes them to a Tibetan lamasery, down South American rivers and onto a Japanese game show.
    Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 8 July 2019
Noun
  • Just off the bustling street known as Spaccanapoli, which runs through the historic center, this quiet cloister feels like a tranquil oasis removed from the chaos.
    Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Set within the cloister of Santa Maria del Carmine, just a few steps from the Aesop Brera store, the installation will wink to how the brand illuminates every skin and room by unveiling Aposē, a trio of lights designed by the brand — one of which will be produced as a limited series.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • He was accused of sending threatening emails to the abbey at 27977 Silverado Canyon Road, Manley said.
    City News Service, Oc Register, 28 Mar. 2026
  • On his arrival at the meeting venue at a historic 12-century abbey in Vaux-de-Cerney outside of Paris, Rubio posed for a group photo with his fellow foreign ministers but none of them spoke.
    Sean Nevin, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • As Mercury joins Mars in Aries in your 9th house, curiosity turns into action and ideas want movement from you.
    Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
  • For One Person After her husband died, Betty Constable lived alone in her house on Orchard Circle in Princeton.
    John McPhee, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • On the moors, cliffs, and hills there are wind farms; oil terminals; small farms, some of which have been there for many centuries; ruined medieval churches and hermitages; and prehistoric settlements, tombs, and monuments.
    Sarah Moss, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Aflame, by Pico Iyer Travel writer and spiritual thinker Pico Iyer has spent time at a Benedictine hermitage in California, a seemingly idyllic setting.
    Monitor reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2025

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“Ashram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ashram. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.

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