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
  • The guru was in prison and refused to leave prison without the other 52 political prisoners being released.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In Jodie Foster’s satire-cum-thriller, George Clooney plays a Jim Cramer-ish TV finance guru whose bullish promotion of one stock has led desperate prole Jack O’Connell to lose his life savings, leading to a hostage standoff in the TV studio.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 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
  • Learn from the world’s biggest thinkers.
    Big Think, Big Think, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Keeping up with the latest ideas from the world’s top thinkers can be a full-time job.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The body will be taken from the Gaza Strip and received in a military ceremony with a military rabbi, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement.
    Pilar Arias, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Swinnen’s wife, a teacher, worked with Lammens and other academy players at Brugge on their academic studies.
    Mark Critchley, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Radio and television were alleged to have similar effects on the patience of their listeners and viewers, respectively, and this led teachers to say that their students could no longer sit through lectures.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And this was disliked by intellectuals.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Think of it as a sleek and uncomfortable time capsule of the past half decade of #MeToo discourse, or as a character study of flawed intellectuals desperately attempting to perform their values while clinging to the facade of their respective identities.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 10 Oct. 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 22 Oct. 2025.

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