contemplate
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The shift has permanently changed the lives of coders and sparked a $1 trillion market selloff as investors and executives contemplate the technology’s potential to reshape industries, including finance, legal and healthcare.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
Losing Brown and Cummings was grim enough but the fear of losing Steyn as well was too much to contemplate.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
Investors should contemplate this war’s financial effects just the same.
From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026
“I recognize my suggestions are hard for many to contemplate and may be even viewed as overly harsh by some.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
Then I would heat my coffee and sit comfortably on my back step and contemplate wood and water and the quick-rising mountains with crowns of conifers and the fir trees high up, dusted with snow.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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Vocabulary lists containing contemplate
Of Mice and Men
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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