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For the owners to even contemplate repeating that experience, especially given the heightened competition in the modern world for sports fans’ attention and viewers’ eyeballs, can bespeak only insanity or stupidity, or probably both.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

But I do believe to effectively assemble a thriller, a writer must contemplate all that is possible in the present to realistically construct what dark, fearful deeds are plausible in the future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The father of a seventh-grader living with cancer recently raised the issue of “whether researchers in a trial could be motivated by prediction market profits,” something so heinous it is difficult to contemplate.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

Millions of Europeans will contemplate the sky in awe on Wednesday as a rare total solar eclipse crosses part of the continent and plunges a swathe of Spain into eerie daytime darkness.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self-sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

Meanwhile, Sam Adams contemplates the film’s ending, arguing that Nolan’s final plot twist changes the meaning of the whole story.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

“Rather than treating disparate impact as an evidentiary mechanism to smoke out intentional discrimination,” the EEOC’s historical approach contemplates “liability based on disproportionately adverse effects alone,” the OLC opinion explains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

The Welsh result is also likely to have an impact on the future of the prime minister as Labour contemplates a challenging set of local elections in England and the election to the Scottish Parliament.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

“The Drama” contemplates thorny matters, but it’s not satire.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026

The kid contemplates crying a bit harder but straightens up almost immediately.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

But it certainly shouldn’t be expanded to the extent contemplated here—opening the federal courts to any passerby with a vague aesthetic grievance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The couple anxiously contemplated the request before agreeing to lend Barnes £10,000, after he promised it would be repaid within a week.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Nike last week said its results would get a lift from tariff refunds that were “not contemplated in the company’s previously provided guidance.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

At the rapidly expanding AI on the Lot conference in Culver City, the “Taxi Driver” scripter mixed provocation and unease as he contemplated Hollywood’s future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

He climbed with the confidence and speed of what he was: a person who has never once in his life contemplated the idea of falling.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Zoley said ICE is contemplating buying more than 10 facilities, and that number “could continue to grow.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

"I don't think the Fifa should be ever contemplating selling off a stake in the World Cup," Masters told BBC Sport.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

This man, meanwhile, is contemplating waiting so that his wife will get a higher amount through survivor benefits in the event he dies before she does.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

Carlisle is now contemplating its next move, the people added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Jesse and Eric hadn’t given a second thought to leaving since that “metaphysical moment”—as Eric put it—when they stood contemplating the smoldering wreck of his Olds.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz