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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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Walking the show were Fakemink and Nettspend, two pillars of what label execs and marketing gurus are betting speaks to the Gen Z zeitgeist.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
10 Mar. 2026
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Jake LaRavia had a guru on the bench.—
Benjamin Royer,
Oc Register,
6 Mar. 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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Both are analytical tennis thinkers.—
Douglas Robson,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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Turner assembles a kaleidoscope of archival footage, performance clips, still photography, and interviews with his Arkestra members and contemporary thinkers who map Sun Ra’s long cultural afterlife.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
5 Mar. 2026
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Fisher grew up at Beth Am and even trained to be a rabbi there before becoming ordained.—
Lauren Costantino
March 14,
Miami Herald,
14 Mar. 2026
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When the Chaldean Iraqi American Association of Michigan bought the club years ago, a rabbi from Temple Israel was among the first to welcome them to the neighborhood, even blessing the facility for them.—
John Wisely,
Freep.com,
13 Mar. 2026
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Progress with some labor groups The school board on Tuesday approved four labor contracts with some of the district’s smaller unions — as negotiations continue with the teachers union and service workers that together represent more than 60,000 employees.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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Critics include the Youth Peace & Justice Foundation, a non-profit formerly known as the Uvalde Foundation for Kids, which was formed in 2022 following the mass shooting of 19 children and two teachers a Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
11 Mar. 2026
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As a young woman, Stanton frequently visited her cousin Gerrit Smith, a militant abolitionist and an ally of John Brown, whose house in Peterboro, New York, was a hotbed for radical intellectuals.—
Moira Donegan,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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China’s politicians and intellectuals are embracing the Greek and Roman classics just as the study of these subjects declines in the West.—
J.D. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
10 Mar. 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 17 Mar. 2026.
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