meditated

verb

past tense of meditate
1
as in pondered
to give serious and careful thought to I've been meditating a career change for months

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2
as in planned
to have in mind as a purpose or goal had meditated a quick return to work after having the baby, but circumstances changed

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Recent Examples of meditated Women meditated on Christ’s Passion, following its stages in prayers that drew power from their own physical suffering. — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026 Biss, who often speaks at the Memorial Day and Veterans Day events at Fountain Square, meditated this year on loss and sacrifice. — Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2026 Everyone sipped, meditated, reset — and then CA7RIEL and Paco tore the cover off the chill and delivered a high-octane performance that will not soon be forgotten. — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2026 After all, Moses famously spent 40 days and 40 nights alone on Mount Sinai before receiving the 10 commandments from God, and Buddha meditated for 49 days under a Bodhi tree before reaching enlightenment. — Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Feb. 2026 The locals know it as the sacred place where ancient kahuna po'o (high priests) meditated and received wisdom. — Sunny Fitzgerald, Travel + Leisure, 18 Jan. 2026 Advertisement For anyone who has ever meditated for any length of time, this is self-evident. — Paul Greenberg, Time, 20 Sep. 2025 Rooted in a period of personal upheaval, the lineup meditated on loss, rupture, and the quiet work of renewal. — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meditated
  1. pondered
  2. planned
  3. contemplated
  4. intended
  5. studied
  6. hoped
  7. debated
  8. looked
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  • Last week began in a slump as investors pondered whether memory chip maker Micron would show sustained demand in its earnings report.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Plunkett, with the Norman Rockwell Museum, pondered whether Americans viewing the painting today would find a familiar feeling.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 25 June 2026
Definition of pondered
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  • In another discrepancy, Crump said that a witness reported Wells had planned to leave on the boat with his friends, contradicting the sheriff's theory.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026
  • On Friday, during a press conference discussing the latest on Wells’ suspicious death, attorney Ben Crump announced that Tyler Perry had agreed to pay the family’s funeral costs, while Colin Kaepernick planned to pay for an independent autopsy.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 11 July 2026
Definition of planned
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  • The story includes messages referring to the incident sent by Racicot two years later, before Platner contemplated running for office.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
  • Emergency experts working day and night contemplated various entry and exit routes from the nearest accessible access point, about 75 feet away from where Gil was trapped.
    — Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
Definition of contemplated
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  • The law primarily applies to rural and small towns along with affluent suburbs and is intended to boost the supply of housing available to people with below-average incomes.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026
  • No regular-season league matches in European football have previously been staged abroad, but Italy’s Serie A and La Liga, the top division of Spanish football, both had intended to do so last season.
    — Dominic Fifield, New York Times, 10 July 2026
Definition of intended
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  • Based on the benefits of seawater, this therapy was already recognized in the 1960s in France, where Farnós studied at one of Europe’s oldest thalassotherapy and functional rehabilitation centers in Collioure.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 July 2026
  • Research on how rage specifically affects women’s careers is thin, partly because research on women’s occupational health during midlife is thin across the board, and partly because rage so infrequently has been studied on its own.
    — Dr. Sarah Berg, Time, 9 July 2026
Definition of studied
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  • Patients and the company had hoped the therapy could move into an FDA review based on existing evidence, a hope that was dashed Monday.
    — Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026
Definition of hoped
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  • Georgia’s most influential dishes could be debated vigorously, but there’s no question that food has been an integral part of the South’s culture.
    — Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 4 July 2026
  • Roberts noted that race and citizenship had been fiercely debated in courts, speeches, Congress and battlefields because of Black Americans’ fight for freedom from slavery.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
Definition of debated
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  • After all these years, Dodd was also pleased to see how the most important character of his career looked in the new series.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • France is coming off a 1-0 win over Paraguay in the Round of 16, a match in which Paraguay looked more interested in wrestling than playing soccer.
    — Joe Murphy, NBC news, 9 July 2026
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