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cogitate

[koj-i-teyt] / ˈkɒdʒ ɪˌteɪt /


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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

The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.

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

As he sings at his work Mime cogitates how he shall thwart his plans and get possession of the sword.

From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)

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

Arthur William Bell, Bailiff of Guernsey, cogitated on the bench.

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

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

But the lieutenant just nodded, cogitated a bit, and then picked up the phone.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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




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