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chew

verb as in grind with teeth

verb as in think about deeply

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Osit wants us to leave the theater chewing over these quandaries, and he’s even willing to let us wonder whether his own movie is a net-positive on the world.

Roberts isn’t just chewing the scenery; she’s devouring the celluloid and licking her chops, hungry for more.

From Salon

Are men's cancers more aggressive, or is it that habits such as smoking and chewing tobacco drag down their outcomes?

From BBC

The daughters were too wrapped up in the most consequential decision of their lives — their choice of husbands — to chew scenery.

But as the project expanded, Mr Patherya realised there was one problem he had not foreseen, beyond squirrels chewing through the wires.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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