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
  • Closing night film, psychological thriller Guru, stars Pierre Niney as a charismatic and manipulative self-help guru, with the cast also featuring Marion Barbeau, Anthony Bajon and Holt McCallany.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
  • As Klopp goes all big picture, more leadership guru than tactics guru, his world is becoming broader.
    Adam Crafton, New York Times, 30 Sep. 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
  • In recent months, as despotism intensified an increasing number of writers, scholars, and thinkers were declared foreign agents, and their books were taken off the shelves.
    Nina Khrushcheva, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • If consummated, Paramount CEO David Ellison will have installed a provocative writer and thinker who has expressed partisan leanings on several major topics at the head of a mainstream news organization that has long sought to cultivate broader audiences.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After Joanne, an agnostic podcaster, meets Noah, an unconventional rabbi, in the first season, the two dance around the idea of a potential relationship despite all of their differences.
    Leia Mendoza, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
  • For backround, in Season 1 of Nobody Wants This, an agnostic podcast host and an unconventional rabbi on the rebound walk into a party.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Then one day, the teacher asked if anyone knew about the Holocaust.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Verbatim bell hooks Writer and academic, teacher and activist.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Some earlier African intellectuals looked at Black America with pity, even disdain.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Prada still holds its place at the apex of influential fashion with its smart mix of the intellectual and the practical.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 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 8 Oct. 2025.

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