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After the set she spoke again, saying that throughout it she had been meditating on the feeling of “never being close enough.”

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2021

What was the genesis for "The Department of Truth"? Was it a bolt of lightning or something that you had been meditating on for some time?

From Salon • May 15, 2021

“I don’t go by mood or circumstance. I just do it like brushing my teeth,” Mr. Lamoureux told me when we checked in after I had been meditating for a couple weeks.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2019

At the time Nick died, I had been meditating for some time, reading about Buddhist history and practice, and his death strengthened my trust in the practice.

From Slate • Jul. 11, 2018

Jinny, whose affairs were in Tanqueray's hands, had been meditating an infidelity to Messrs. Molyneux, by whom Tanqueray vehemently assured her she had been, and always would be, "had."

From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May