meditate
verb (used without object)
to engage in thought or contemplation; reflect.
is meditating
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present progressiveof meditate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Kubal said he is meditating on specific Scriptures during this terrible time.
From Fox News ● Mar. 4, 2022
It might be surprising to hear that what’s been keeping me going lately is meditating on slavery.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2018
And when I’m acting, he is in his garden harvesting kale, he is running, he is meditating.
From Time ● Jun. 14, 2012
As the title implies, he is meditating on morality this time, a subject not entirely suited to in temperament.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pamela has just announced her engagement to an archdeacon of pronounced Evangelical views; Gerald is meditating a prolonged tour in New Guinea with a Bolshevist mission; Anthony contemplates neither matrimony nor expatriation.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-01 by Various
