contemplate
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Those who contemplate Sparta’s trajectory will not, one hopes, be as blind to history’s lessons as the Greeks themselves were.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
Morbid though it is to contemplate, those kinds of numbers probably make more congressional deaths in the near future inevitable.
From Slate • Apr. 24, 2026
The Oakland Raiders had a throwaway 12th-round pick in the 1977 draft, and then-coach John Madden grew frustrated hearing his personnel executives contemplate using it on a basketball player or track guy.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
At that stage, Strategy was sitting on unrealized losses of almost $5 billion and despite public displays of bravura and a refusal to contemplate selling, the pressure on Strategy’s stock price was relentless.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
“Aristotle says in the Poetics,” said Henry, “that objects such as corpses, painful to view in themselves, can become delightful to contemplate in a work of art.”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Vocabulary lists containing contemplate
Of Mice and Men
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List 5
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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