ashram

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Recent Examples of ashram His group has ashrams across 10 states and union territories in India and claims to have 60 million followers worldwide. Rhea Mogul, CNN, 12 July 2024 Dlamini, 27, was born in Los Angeles and spent time as a child with her mother at an ashram led by jazz musician Alice Coltrane. Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2023 The Sullivanians adhered to the same principles and traditions as many of the ashrams and rural intentional communities of the era: polyamory, communal living, group parenting, socialist politics. Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023 His Dera Sacha Sauda group has ashrams – places of worship – across 10 states and union territories in India, and claims to have 60 million followers worldwide. Manveena Suri, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for ashram
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Noun
  • This growing network of trails goes through rhododendron forests and past monasteries and villages, giving travelers a closer look at places only accessible on foot.
    Mary Holland, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2025
  • In a pivotal scene in the season finale, Piper comes to the realization that her plan to stay at a monastery for a year and study Buddhism isn't going to work.
    Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • When the breeze flows through the cloisters, the kites float, showing off their gravity-defying nature.
    Diana Budds, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The cloister houses an herbalist doling out tisanes and tinctures and a boulangerie producing sourdough loaves from flour milled on-site.
    Jennifer Flowers, AFAR Media, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In Melk, guests can see the frescoes of the Benedictine abbey or remain onboard for an Austrian cookie tasting.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The TikTok post then pivots to Kate's curtsy to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip during her wedding to Prince William in April 2011, again at the abbey followed by Kate and Meghan curtsying to the queen at Sandringham on Christmas Day in 2018.
    Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Siba said the security forces inspected the document, searched the house for weapons and, finding none, told the family to remain inside.
    Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • There was the infamous time McMahon punished Triple H for hugging Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, and Shawn Michaels in the center of the ring at a house show, breaking kayfabe when this was something wrestlers didn't do.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • When Iyer’s wife accompanies him on a visit to the hermitage, the monks greet her warmly.
    Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The life that Iyer brings to the hermitage has troubles, too.
    Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025

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“Ashram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ashram. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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