rumination
Example Sentences
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Yet the theme of human sacrifice persisted as a subject for deep rumination even after advances in science, industry and wealth insulated the West’s creative classes from ancient and medieval rites.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026
In 1972, filmmaker William Greaves reconvened a group of artists and luminaries from the Harlem Renaissance including musicians, playwrights, poets and scholars at Duke Ellington’s townhouse for an afternoon of reminiscing and rumination.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026
And nights waking drenched in sweat, waking to obsessive rumination, bad dreams leaking into the dawn.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2025
The researchers also found that these changes are associated with rumination, a part of the diagnostic criteria for conditions affecting mental health, such as depression and anxiety.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2024
That familiar exercise of hers, half rumination, half anxiety.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
