cogitation

Example Sentences

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Psychologists know that people are credulous about the cognitive abilities of those who matter to them, overinterpreting simple responses as signs of cogitation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

But it’s mostly a simulacrum of human thought, not the product of cogitation.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2023

At one extreme, there are those for whom a lifetime of rumination and cogitation offers an unparalleled sense of meaning.

From Salon • May 30, 2021

Sometimes you mull it over for a few hours or days because you want to do a little research and cogitation.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2015

Peace lay on Devon like a blessing, the summer’s peace, the reprieve, New Hampshire’s response to all the cogitation and deadness of winter.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles