Thesaurus / cogitate
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As his characters cogitate and self-medicate, scheme and philosophize, his subject is less the content of their thoughts than the mind contemplating itself.
WITH ‘DOUBLE BLIND,’ EDWARD ST. AUBYN TASKS HIMSELF WITH A FORMIDABLE CHALLENGECHARLES ARROWSMITHJUNE 11, 2021WASHINGTON POSTLet me see; let me think, reflect, cogitate, tickle the thinker.
THE VARMINTOWEN JOHNSONIt is chiefly this class of holiday-makers that we have in our minds whilst we cogitate the hints in these pages.
CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL OF POPULAR LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART, NO. 696VARIOUSThe word "Coger" does not imply codger, or a drinker of cogs, but comes from cogite, to cogitate.
OLD AND NEW LONDONWALTER THORNBURYThere on the low stone wall bordering on the east the property of Captain Orrin Eldridge, he seated himself to rest and cogitate.
FAIR HARBORJOSEPH CROSBY LINCOLNHe will lift his eyebrows with a certain look of contempt, and continue to cogitate—about nothing.
THE STRAND MAGAZINE, VOLUME V, ISSUE 27, MARCH 1893VARIOUSHe walked to and fro in his room, and cogitated as few people beside Theodore Racksole could cogitate.
THE GRAND BABYLON HOTELARNOLD BENNETTAnd I wanted some time to myself, to cogitate, and to formulate some theories already budding in my brain.
THE MAN WHO FELL THROUGH THE EARTHCAROLYN WELLSAll laughed heartily at this point, and turned away, leaving Sam to bite his lips and cogitate.
THE BOBBIN BOYWILLIAM M. THAYERTen seconds more for another gun crew to cogitate on whether disaster hung on the dart of a firing pin.
"AND THEY THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T FIGHT"FLOYD GIBBONSWORDS RELATED TO COGITATE
- appraise
- brood
- build castles in air
- cerebrate
- cogitate
- consider
- contemplate
- daydream
- debate
- deliberate
- dwell
- evaluate
- examine
- excogitate
- figure
- give thought to
- meditate
- mind
- moon
- mull
- mull over
- muse
- noodle around
- perpend
- pipe-dream
- put on thinking cap
- puzzle over
- reason
- reflect
- revolve
- roll
- ruminate
- speculate
- study
- think out
- think over
- turn over
- weigh
- woolgather
- analyze
- appraise
- appreciate
- brood
- cerebrate
- cogitate
- comprehend
- conceive
- consider
- deduce
- deliberate
- estimate
- evaluate
- examine
- figure out
- have in mind
- ideate
- imagine
- infer
- intellectualize
- judge
- logicalize
- meditate
- mull
- mull over
- muse
- ponder
- put on one's thinking cap
- rack one's brains
- rationalize
- reason
- reflect
- resolve
- revolve
- ruminate
- sort out
- speculate
- stew
- stop to consider
- study
- take under consideration
- turn over
- use one's head
- weigh
- beat one's brains
- brainstorm
- build castles in air
- call it
- call the turn
- cerebrate
- chew over
- cogitate
- conjecture
- consider
- contemplate
- deliberate
- dope out
- excogitate
- figure
- figure out
- guess
- guesstimate
- have a hunch
- hazard a guess
- head-trip
- hypothesize
- kick around
- meditate
- muse
- pipe-dream
- psych out
- read
- read between lines
- reason
- reflect
- review
- ruminate
- run it up flagpole
- scheme
- size up
- study
- suppose
- surmise
- suspect
- weigh
- wonder
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