contemplated
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In one tweet on the first day of the furlough, she listed: “Got my furlough papers. Had brunch with fellow feds. Obsessively checked news and bank accounts. Contemplated a “#shutdownbeard.”
From The Guardian • Dec. 26, 2018
Contemplated for several years, the plan was held up by protracted negotiations over how much city agencies would pay for access to the electricity from the cable.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2011
Contemplated in the Marshall Plan: some $6 to $7 billion the first year.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Contemplated are a hall of assembly, a hostel, to accommodate visiting clergymen and scholars, an administration building, a chapter house, and a clergy village for retired rectors.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Contemplated in their actual embodiment in the laws, and typical forms of the material world, they are εἰκόνες--images of the eternal perfections of God.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)