cogitate

This week, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are joined by Wesley Morris, critic at large for The New York Times and co-host of the Still Processing podcast, to cogitate on Conundrums 2023.

From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2023

It’s one thing to cogitate and empathize with national shame and collective culpability, but it’s another thing entirely to grow up with it, to have it tattooed on your DNA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

"They will go over and over their thoughts, ruminate and cogitate sometimes for weeks and months," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2022

Here Berggruen plans to construct what he half-jokingly describes as a “secular monastery,” a campus where scholars affiliated with the think tank that he founded, the Berggruen Institute, will live, work, cogitate.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

He had tried to cogitate and to discipline himself to study.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

But the narrator, thrilled and terrified by the prospect of committing to an entity who cogitates “a million times faster” than he can imagine, can’t help but pose “the indelicate question.”

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019

She cogitates on questions like: What if she is making a choice she will always regret?

From New York Times ● May 10, 2018

You could say that such works represent a convergence of opposite kinds of consciousness: one that thinks rationalistically in the most abstract terms possible and one that cogitates by means of visual and poetic metaphors.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2010

But when General Howe hears that Mary Philipse still loves Washington, is determined to go to him at Valley Forge, he cogitates a stratagem.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the former case, the understanding cogitates more under its conceptions, in the latter it cogitates more in them.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

He went back to Down House, cogitated for a decade or more and came up with a second book, Descent of Man, in 1871.

From National Geographic ● Jun. 18, 2017

Arthur William Bell, Bailiff of Guernsey, cogitated on the bench.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the 225 members of the 1924 Institute were shaking hands and catching trains, editors cogitated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Secretary of State Stimson, alive to the embarrassment of the situation, cogitated in his office.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the lieutenant just nodded, cogitated a bit, and then picked up the phone.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Attorney Joyce Vance was on Substack adding her expertise to the cogitating.

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2023

And he began to work in earnest on the manuscript for “City of Quartz,” which brought together ideas he had been cogitating on for years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2022

But mostly the denizens of this encampment stand around cogitating, in long sentences heavy with metaphors and dependent clauses, and have few articulated motivations or desires.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022

All this cogitating steered his mind back to the problems he had after high school, when he was dealing with a sometimes crippling depression and anxiety.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2018

He had a cogitating look on his face.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles