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

Nor could he even cogitate upon the strong, true purpose and draw strength from that.

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

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

In such an act the understanding determines the internal sense by the synthetical conjunction which it cogitates, conformably to the internal intuition which corresponds to the manifold in the synthesis of the understanding.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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

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

Last week, in the hushed, unhurried atmosphere of the 14th floor executive suite of G.M.'s grey stone fortress in Detroit, Jim Roche cogitated aloud about the state of business.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman