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In one tweet on the first day of the furlough, she listed: “Got my furlough papers. Had brunch with fellow feds. Obsessively checked news and bank accounts. Contemplated a “#shutdownbeard.”

From The Guardian • Dec. 26, 2018

Contemplated for several years, the plan was held up by protracted negotiations over how much city agencies would pay for access to the electricity from the cable.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2011

Contemplated in the Marshall Plan: some $6 to $7 billion the first year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Contemplated are a hall of assembly, a hostel, to accommodate visiting clergymen and scholars, an administration building, a chapter house, and a clergy village for retired rectors.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Contemplated," indeed, is too modest a word, according to his own account, to be applied to any one item in the formidable list.

From English Men of Letters: Coleridge by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)




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