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musing

[myoo-zing] / ˈmyu zɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
pensive
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The co-author of a report musing about artificial intelligence disrupting a host of businesses says he was betting those companies would go down in value.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

Those examples have Carnegie Mellon’s Green musing: “Maybe there’s someone writing something now about the U.S. buying Greenland.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

In the changing rooms, a welcoming, ready-made friendship group of Newcastle-supporting team-mates pull on black and white jerseys while musing about early season defeats by Juventus and Inter Milan.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

Given that context, Hawke’s musing about one of Redford’s obituaries makes sense.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2025

I hardly know whether I had slept or not after this musing; at any rate, I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious, which sounded, I thought, just above me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë