cogitate
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With that distinction comes the expected propagation of ambitious museum exhibitions seeking to articulate, illuminate and cogitate over its local history of modern art, which is little-known.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
This week, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are joined by Wesley Morris, critic at large for The New York Times and co-host of the Still Processing podcast, to cogitate on Conundrums 2023.
From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2023
"They will go over and over their thoughts, ruminate and cogitate sometimes for weeks and months," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2022
Here Berggruen plans to construct what he half-jokingly describes as a “secular monastery,” a campus where scholars affiliated with the think tank that he founded, the Berggruen Institute, will live, work, cogitate.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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But the narrator, thrilled and terrified by the prospect of committing to an entity who cogitates “a million times faster” than he can imagine, can’t help but pose “the indelicate question.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019
She cogitates on questions like: What if she is making a choice she will always regret?
From New York Times ● May 10, 2018
You could say that such works represent a convergence of opposite kinds of consciousness: one that thinks rationalistically in the most abstract terms possible and one that cogitates by means of visual and poetic metaphors.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2010
But when General Howe hears that Mary Philipse still loves Washington, is determined to go to him at Valley Forge, he cogitates a stratagem.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There is silence for a moment while Tommy cogitates, and then—— "Are those hymns?" demands he, pointing at the discarded volume.
From April's Lady A Novel by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
He went back to Down House, cogitated for a decade or more and came up with a second book, Descent of Man, in 1871.
From National Geographic ● Jun. 18, 2017
As the 225 members of the 1924 Institute were shaking hands and catching trains, editors cogitated.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Philosopher-dramatist Pirandello cogitated, frowned, beamed at last upon his honorably quarrelsome friends, invited them to a garden party, suggested that they bring swords.
From Time Magazine Archive
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That was the seed, and then Crichton cogitated, watered it as you would a Ficus, which seems to be his method.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Temporarily he pushed away the specs on the Nexus-6 brain unit, took a pinch of Mrs. Siddons’ No. 3 & 4 snuff and cogitated.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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Attorney Joyce Vance was on Substack adding her expertise to the cogitating.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2023
And he began to work in earnest on the manuscript for “City of Quartz,” which brought together ideas he had been cogitating on for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2022
But mostly the denizens of this encampment stand around cogitating, in long sentences heavy with metaphors and dependent clauses, and have few articulated motivations or desires.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
All this cogitating steered his mind back to the problems he had after high school, when he was dealing with a sometimes crippling depression and anxiety.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2018
He had a cogitating look on his face.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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