cogitate

Example Sentences

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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

Here Berggruen plans to construct what he half-jokingly describes as a “secular monastery,” a campus where scholars affiliated with the think tank that he founded, the Berggruen Institute, will live, work, cogitate.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2022

When the resentment would come to him he would cogitate and study.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers