meditates

present tense third-person singular of meditate

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Recent Examples of meditates Patrick House meditates on the question. Literary Hub, 18 Oct. 2025 My partner [Margaret Qualley] meditates and stuff. Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025 Honer spoke with The Tennessean about his latest project, an autobiographical record that meditates on romance, roots and life on the road. Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Oct. 2025 This perfect summer read meditates on grief, expectations, loyalty and wealth. Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025 Leaders Who Train Their Minds Win Just look at Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s billionaire CEO, who sleeps 8 hours a night and meditates an hour a day - or Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, who starts mornings with mindfulness. Jason Walker Psyd, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meditates
Verb
  • In the finale, overwhelmed with guilt, Louis goes to a train station and contemplates suicide.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Accompanied by tender, understated guitar, Gill contemplates the sacrifices and rewards that come with a life devoted to music.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The communique said Beijing will strive to improve people’s welfare and the social security system, but did not provide details on how Beijing intends to achieve that or where the funds would come from.
    Reuters, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
  • However, most of the document focuses on how the school intends to spend more on sports.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Wyn Baptiste An acclaimed photographer of street protests ponders the effectiveness of his work, even as his images provoke palpable international reactions.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Still, no one is ever confirmed as being in the tomb, and Debbie even ponders whether or not Danny is really dead.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Commercial Launch Archer has partnered with Abu Dhabi Aviation, which plans to launch a commercial eVTOL service in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s second city in the near future.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Ford had said the province plans to pay $54 million (about $75 million Canadian) for the ads to air across multiple American television stations using audio and video of Reagan speaking about tariffs in 1987.
    Rob Gillies, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The media entertains these questions, in an effort to intellectualize the ideologies underpinning the cult’s bloodlust.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The question is whether that hardware expands or merely entertains.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The story goes that at the homecoming pep rally in 1995, then-student body president Michael Torregrossa was pushed into the pond by other student government members.
    Jordy Fee-Platt, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • These spots are all gone, but now, due in part to the rise of #BookTok, where genre fiction often goes viral, booksellers are once again getting more targeted in their approach.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Passmore reflects on Shakur’s life and considers how her story highlights the broader struggles and resilience of Black activists whose work is marginalized in mainstream histories.
    Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Located at the southern end of the Strait of Malacca, a key shipping route connecting the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea, Singapore is an international maritime and shipping hub that considers maintaining open sea lines of communication paramount.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That means more than one of every eight of Kroger's 103 stores in its Cincinnati-Dayton division (which includes Northern Kentucky) have the digital devices so far.
    Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 Oct. 2025
  • That means defensive coordinator Robert Saleh may have to take more chances than usual in terms of blitzing.
    Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025

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