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Even with the team’s fourth ranked win of the year, Gates’ mantra has stayed the same from past weeks: The Tigers are still improving.—Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 1 Feb. 2025 The enemies within Putin repeats the words enemies within like a mantra and insists anyone who challenges him is a traitor who must be jailed — or worse.—Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025 An increasing number of brands such as Chick-fil-A, Bud Light and Target — through policies and advertising campaigns — adopted a mantra of being more inclusive.—Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025 One of his hiring mantras was that comedy, as a humanizing force, is too important to be left to professionals.—Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for mantra
Word History
Etymology
Sanskrit, sacred counsel, formula, from manyate he thinks; akin to Latin mens mind — more at mind
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