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Recent Examples of meditative The Naked Gun star on gardening tools, tips, and how a new chapter of her life grew from the meditative practice of getting her hands dirty By Juliet Izon June 17, 2025 All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. Juliet Izon, Architectural Digest, 17 June 2025 Known for her work that celebrates female forms through earthy textures, Wu believes that the meditative art of ceramics can only be fully appreciated in quietude. Denni Hu, Footwear News, 27 June 2025 Her exercises, lifted from decades of performance scores, are designed to turn ordinary acts into meditative rituals. Ellen O'Connell Whittet june 25, Literary Hub, 25 June 2025 But at its heart, 3 Faces marks the start of a more meditative series of films in which Panahi returns to his roots among the Azeri of western Iran. Tiara Ataii, Vulture, 24 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for meditative
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Adjective
  • The genre as a whole is widely celebrated for its age-appropriate narratives and emotional depth, and the film has long been praised for its thoughtful portrayal of childhood and growing up.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
  • Fans show up to the Cowboy Carter tour in thoughtful, inventive takes on Western Americana fashion, stadiums filled with denim, bandanas, cowboy hats, and looks that don’t just scream U.S.A but hoot and holler.
    Leah Faye Cooper, Vogue, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • The pair's scenes are stunningly well-written, tasking the actors with navigating a whirlwind of anger, frustration, melancholy, and love in tight, uncomfortable spaces.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 3 July 2025
  • The film’s odd tone — propulsive yet melancholy, cutting yet reflective — seems to embody the fact that nothing ever stays the same.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Faculty at Ivy League and other top schools are encouraged to revisit their course policies regularly, experiment with new pedagogical methods, and guide students through the process of using AI in responsible, reflective ways.
    Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • On July 5, the low angle of the sun will cast prominent shadows along the eastern rim of the impact crater, while highlighting reflective debris streaks known as ejecta rays that were cast out during its creation some 800 million years ago.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 5 July 2025
Adjective
  • Released in March, the 14-track project does sound simultaneously disorderly and controlled, at once bursting at the seams and laced with moments of contemplative chill.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 July 2025
  • This immensely slow-moving and contemplative energy joins us into Leo season, which starts when the sun enters this confident fire sign on July 22.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • Jefferson rooted the Declaration in natural philosophy, or the philosophical study of nature and the physical universe without consideration of supernatural causes.
    Time, Time, 1 July 2025
  • Barry Lam teaches in the philosophy department at the University of California, Riverside, and hosts a popular podcast, Hi-Phi Nation, which applies philosophical modes of inquiry to everyday topics.
    Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • The show ran for two seasons. 07 of 18 Sean Penn and Hopper Penn Sean Penn and Robin Wright's son, Hopper — pictured here with sister Dylan — shares his father's pensive stare and has opened up about his no-nonsense parenting style while growing up.
    Lydia Price, People.com, 11 June 2025
  • His subtle direction also basks in critical moments of silence: a smoke break outside the classroom, the frustrated focus during an exam, and the pensive, haunting opening and closing image of Marjan looking out through semi-transparent curtains.
    Christian Lewis, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025

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“Meditative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meditative. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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