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The five men were meditating off a trail near Skull Rock in the hills above the Pacific Palisades on the morning of Jan. 7.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2025

When she took her place on the courtroom bench, she closed her eyes for a long time, sitting arrow straight as if she were meditating.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2018

"I came here at eight o'clock in the morning to start work and there were hundreds of people here. They were singing and they were meditating," he had said previously .

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2017

He closed his eyes for a while as if he were meditating.

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2014

Randolph himself would, perhaps, have trembled, if he had been aware what his dependents were meditating, as they supposed for his advantage, but at all events for their own satisfaction.

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy