yogi

variants also yogin

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Recent Examples of yogi 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 By automating these time-consuming tasks, the professional yogi can focus on higher-impact activities like client sessions and program development, all while building their online presence. Aytekin Tank, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025 The image serves as evidence that Parks, who was born in 1913 and lived to 92, was a true yogi. Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025 Thematic fashion stories and product photography captured at the hotel will live on the Michael Kors website and in emails, while the brand’s social account will feature additional Ibiza insights, including interviews with local talents from a ceramic artist to a local yogi. Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for yogi
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yogi
Noun
  • Most claims made by health gurus and social-media influencers are exaggerated.
    Jason Liebowitz, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Elisabeth Moss plays a former sitcom star who, after losing one too many jobs to younger actresses, comes under the sway of a powerful wellness guru (Kate Hudson) but begins to sense something sinister afoot.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Peter is a visual thinker, a photographic talker, describing his surroundings with a precise and artistic eye.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Greek Revival Greece and its ancient thinkers play a big role.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The remains are set to be transferred into Israel, where a military rabbi will perform a military ceremony, Netanyahu's office added.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Wind howls as one of the daughters' body rocks on a gurney, her family lighting candles as a rabbi screams scripture with water crashing in a nearby tub.
    Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Dozens of Tarrant County College faculty members have been ordered to pay back portions of their salaries, with college administrators saying the teachers did not meet their contractual obligations.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Nov. 2025
  • His educator license remains active, according to Indiana's teacher licensure database.
    Caroline Beck, IndyStar, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In DaCosta’s version, Eileen is no longer a boozy male intellectual but a woman fighting to be taken seriously — as a writer, an academic and a person.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • In the early twentieth century, two groups of Indians living in America, young intellectuals and working-class laborers, had very different experiences of the country.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 15 Nov. 2025.

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