contemplates

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This contemplates the Rams selecting USC receiver Makai Lemon, although it’s entirely possible that the sure-handed Trojans star will already be gone by the time the 13th pick rolls around.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

The Constitution contemplates Congress having limited law-enforcement powers and even specifies crimes it can punish: treason, counterfeiting, “offences against the law of nations” and “piracies and felonies on the high seas.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Upstairs, sitting on her bed and glancing at a poem by Victor Hugo, Rahaf contemplates the fact that her future is secure for the first time in her entire life.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

But as she lies in her bed at Cardiff's Llandough Hospital, she remembers the day her normal student lifestyle was turned upside down, and contemplates how she can return to an active lifestyle.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025

He contemplates the “bond that never lets go of us, not even when we suffer the most, the bond of God’s love.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman