cogitate

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

It’s one thing to cogitate and empathize with national shame and collective culpability, but it’s another thing entirely to grow up with it, to have it tattooed on your DNA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

"They will go over and over their thoughts, ruminate and cogitate sometimes for weeks and months," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2022

Dyson presents mathematical arguments that these beings can, through shrewd conservation of energy, maintain the resources needed to survive, cogitate and communicate in an eternally expanding cosmos.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2021

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

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

Mr. Steuer approaches the jury box and in a suave, confidential manner breathes an inaudible question, stands stiff waiting for an answer, relaxes when it comes, cogitates gently, whispers another query.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Hungerford, Margaret Wolfe

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

The committee learnedly cogitated the question of trees versus livestock; and then moved with dignity into the leafy shade of the Yellowstone National Park.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has cogitated the fact that more than seven tenths of the earth's surface is submarine territory, on the average only three or four miles submerged but in some places far, far deeper.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the 225 members of the 1924 Institute were shaking hands and catching trains, editors cogitated.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the lieutenant just nodded, cogitated a bit, and then picked up the phone.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

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

The essay was among a litany of embryonic subjects that got him cogitating, though.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2017

I stare at his back for a while, cogitating, unsure of how to begin.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman