cogitation
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Psychologists know that people are credulous about the cognitive abilities of those who matter to them, overinterpreting simple responses as signs of cogitation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
But it’s mostly a simulacrum of human thought, not the product of cogitation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
At one extreme, there are those for whom a lifetime of rumination and cogitation offers an unparalleled sense of meaning.
From Salon ● May 30, 2021
But even that scene moves; there isn’t a moment when Smallwood feels bogged down, by grad-school cogitation or anything else.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2021
The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat.
From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo
Vocabulary lists containing cogitation
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