cogitate

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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

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

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2022

A banquito is where one sits, alone or in a group, to cogitate and reflect.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 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