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
  • Through centuries of upheaval the monastery endured as a living testament to Ukraine’s faith, culture, and history.
    Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • From $1,724 Splendido Portofino, housed in a former Benedictine monastery, became a hot hotel for celebrities like Liz Taylor and Lauren Bacall in the 1950s and ’60s; Taylor’s favorite dish, a three-tomato sauce with spaghetti, is still on the menu.
    Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 19 June 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
  • In Rome, Le Graal will open the city’s first private members’ club of its kind inside Palazzo Medici Clarelli on the historic Via Giulia, with 11 rooms and suites, two restaurants, a cloister lounge, American bar, speakeasy, cigar room, wine cellar, gym, and treatment rooms.
    Rachel Ingram, Robb Report, 21 June 2026
  • The first was held in the cloister of the Gallery of Modern Art (GAM), with a private tour and cocktail reception for guests.
    Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 6 June 2026
Noun
  • Unfortunately, the abbey fell into a state of disrepair for many years until Philippe Pascal and his family acquired the property in 2004 and upgraded not just the estate but the entire region’s standing.
    Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 17 June 2026
  • At the time, a rep for the couple told PEOPLE that the ceremony took place at a medieval abbey at La Cervara with 100 family and friends.
    Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • The heatwave has been significant enough to prompt major fashion houses to accommodate last-minute schedule changes.
    Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 23 June 2026
  • In the Independence standoff in the 700 block of Brookside Avenue at what police believed to be Sanchez-Munoz’s primary residence, firefighters had to put out a blaze in the house, but the man was not located there.
    Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • These people would then come to your hermitage to suggest an alternative.
    Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2026
  • 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

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

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