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also yogin
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Recent Examples of yogi
Meanwhile, in Brisbane, Australia, another yogi found an unexpected soulmate.
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Ronnie Li, USA Today, 18 Nov. 2025
Rusch is a woman who wears many hats, from business owner to mother, yogi, and TV star.
—Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 3 Nov. 2025
Published: May 10, 2025 Sierra Vandervort (Photo: Neal Francis; Outside Festival)
Sierra is a writer, yogi, and music lover living in the Pacific Northwest.
—Sierra Vandervort, Outside Online, 10 May 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
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Ronnie Li, USA Today, 18 Nov. 2025
Rusch is a woman who wears many hats, from business owner to mother, yogi, and TV star.
—Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 3 Nov. 2025
Published: May 10, 2025 Sierra Vandervort (Photo: Neal Francis; Outside Festival)
Sierra is a writer, yogi, and music lover living in the Pacific Northwest.
—Sierra Vandervort, Outside Online, 10 May 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yogi
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Brand, once a left-leaning political campaigner who has rebranded himself as a conservative guru to millions of social media followers, arrived at Southwark crown court carrying a copy of the Bible, with several pages bookmarked.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Feb. 2026
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Arguing with the guru, it was said, was a fool’s response, like kicking gold.—
Blair Glaser,
Fortune,
23 Feb. 2026
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Several sequels followed, including one called Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, in which Karloff plays a hypnotist swami from the Orient.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2024
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In the mid-’80s, when the community had swollen to more than 600 residents, New Vrindaban’s swami, a thin-lipped former Baptist, was accused of ordering the assassination of two disgruntled devotees.—
Ashley Stimpson,
Longreads,
19 Feb. 2022
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But a statue of Mohandas Gandhi in a Delhi park seemed girded for the struggle ahead: Antipollution campaigners had fitted the mahatma with a respirator mask.—
BROOK LARMER,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2018
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And Land, in recent years, has reëmerged as one of the most influential reactionary thinkers of our time.—
James Duesterberg,
New Yorker,
18 Feb. 2026
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The industry is full of determined, creative thinkers.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
17 Feb. 2026
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In 1936, Julian Feibelman arrived as the new rabbi at New Orleans’s Temple Sinai.—
Nicholas Lemann,
New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2026
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In 2024, Moshe Friedman, a local rabbi, filed a police complaint against six mohels who practice metzitzah b’peh, a custom in which the circumciser cleans the circumcision wound with oral suction.—
Philissa Cramer,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Feb. 2026
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The city’s most popular beaches, Clifton and Camps Bay, are a short drive away for those prepared to brace the brisk Atlantic waters; yoga teachers can be brought in on demand.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Feb. 2026
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Linder, a former teacher, doesn't work anymore due to a host of medical issues — including treatment for a brain tumor and its effects, and Parkinsonism, a neurological disorder that causes Parkinson's-like symptoms.—
Greg Iacurci,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2026
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Few things are less tolerable to a southern conservative man—the contractor’s truck is mounted with a gun rack and emblazoned on the sides with a large American flag—than being made to feel small, especially by a liberal intellectual.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Feb. 2026
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So said George Santayana, the Spanish-American philosopher who was a star Harvard professor before resettling in Europe and becoming an influential public intellectual.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
17 Feb. 2026
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Her grandmother isn’t a pandit – in India, as well as in Indian diaspora communities, that’s been a domain that is largely populated by men, with cultural mores at play.—
Deepti Hajela,
The Christian Science Monitor,
14 Dec. 2021
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Her father worked as a pandit -- or Hindu priest -- at a temple, and visited homes to perform rituals.—
Vedika Sud, Esha Mitra and Julia Hollingsworth,
CNN,
11 June 2021
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“Yogi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yogi. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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