as in thoughtful
given to or marked by long, quiet thinking
a contemplative person who likes to go on solitary walks the contemplative life of the monks at the abbey
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Recent Examples of contemplative
Of course, Snoop has jammed with everyone from Willie Nelson to the Gorillaz to the late Quincy Jones, but he’s never sounded so pure and contemplative.
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Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2024
The score ranges from intimate and contemplative, with a chamber-sized group of strings, to bigger and more epic for the Olympic scenes.
—Jon Burlingame, Variety, 1 Dec. 2024
The stories her music tells—now spine-tingling, now gravely contemplative—have won her commissions from top orchestras, Grammy nominations, and more than 11 million plays on Spotify, not to mention exposure at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
—Matthew Gurewitsch, airmail.news, 8 Feb. 2025
Image The mood on Friday and Saturday, by contrast, was serene, even contemplative.
—Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
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Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2024
The score ranges from intimate and contemplative, with a chamber-sized group of strings, to bigger and more epic for the Olympic scenes.
—Jon Burlingame, Variety, 1 Dec. 2024
The stories her music tells—now spine-tingling, now gravely contemplative—have won her commissions from top orchestras, Grammy nominations, and more than 11 million plays on Spotify, not to mention exposure at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
—Matthew Gurewitsch, airmail.news, 8 Feb. 2025
Image The mood on Friday and Saturday, by contrast, was serene, even contemplative.
—Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for contemplative
Adjective
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By combining modern tools like AI with a thoughtful approach to skills and criteria, organizations can move beyond surface-level signals and discover hidden talent.—
Ishan Gupta,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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For Gabrielle, the experience was a reminder of the profound impact of small, thoughtful gestures.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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Even the quieter domestic dramas vying less for box-office glory and more for Academy Awards acclaim feature music lush with classical detail, like Carter Burwell’s melancholy strings in Carol, giving twinkly lyricism to the emotional violence roiling beneath the characters’ skins.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
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Instead, their new record is merely 47 minutes and 17 seconds of relative silence and white noise, a melancholy display of the sound of music if there’s no artists to actually create it.—
Ethan Millman,
Rolling Stone,
25 Feb. 2025
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When the organization signed rapper Jay-Z’s Roc Nation in 2019, the performances narrowed further, centering around hip-hop while shunting aside rock, country, pop and other music genres that are also reflective of America’s melting pot.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2025
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The finale might be reflective of LaBruce’s own skepticism, specifically his disdain for large-scale movements that advocate for a tidy future and his preference for the ideas of French philosopher and poet Jean Genet.—
P.E. Moskowitz,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But for the wellness-attuned, the following hotels are a step above the rest, especially with their offering of meditative spaces, detox treatments, and in-room amenities that deem a visit to the spa altogether unnecessary.—
Michaela Trimble,
Vogue,
26 Feb. 2025
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Enjoy off-property activities such as hiking alongside meditative sound journeys.—
Kate Donnelly,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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Justin Vernon’s vision is expansive as ever, pairing a pensive drum track with country guitar strumming (reminiscent of his early band DeYarmond Edison) and pristine, silvery synthesizers.—
Alex Suskind,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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Martin appears pensive in the sunny shot, while Apple posed with her head resting in her hand.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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His thesis centers on philosophical idealism, proposing that Consciousness is a fundamental quantum phenomenon.—
Carlo Tortora Brayda,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Friedrich Nietzsche's idea of rationality, Apollonian, and the irrational passion, defined as Dionysian, have always been a sort of philosophical guide for Murano; his way of conceiving fashion.—
Alberto Calabrese,
Vogue,
4 Mar. 2025
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