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ponder
verb as in think about seriously
Strongest matches
consider, contemplate, deliberate, evaluate, examine, mull, mull over, puzzle over, reflect, speculate, weigh
Strong matches
appraise, brood, cerebrate, cogitate, daydream, debate, dwell, excogitate, figure, meditate, mind, moon, muse, reason, revolve, roll, ruminate, study, woolgather
Weak matches
build castles in air, give thought to, noodle around, perpend, pipe-dream, put on thinking cap, think out, think over, turn over
Example Sentences
But others ponder just how British it is to curb repeated protests - the plan Mahmood now plans to legislate for.
And now he’s the team’s first general manager in two decades who has been forced to ponder a future without Anze Kopitar.
Foreman said he pondered that and quickly realized that, yes indeed, it was.
He knows that plenty in his party, from the cabinet down, are privately pondering whether this could be his last Labour Party conference as prime minister.
Yet it's clear from multiple conversations that it's not only mischief makers who are pondering what to do.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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