cogitate

With that distinction comes the expected propagation of ambitious museum exhibitions seeking to articulate, illuminate and cogitate over its local history of modern art, which is little-known.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

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

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

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

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

He who often cogitates upon the death of others, little knows what sad Fate he may be preparing for himself.

From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley

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

Benito Mussolini cogitated the Hoover plan last week, kept the Italian press from anything more definite than enthusiastic but totally vague expressions.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Secretary of State Stimson, alive to the embarrassment of the situation, cogitated in his office.

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

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

In his solo piano playing, at a halting mid-tempo, he often sounds like someone learning a step, holding and testing a pose, cogitating.

From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2018

He had a cogitating look on his face.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles