pondered

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Back in the 2010s, for instance, executives at Gilead Sciences pondered how much to charge for Sovaldi, its miracle cure for hepatitis C.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

The question that Barclays analyst Dan Levy pondered on Tuesday was, of course, why?

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

As he stood outside the crammed pub on Sunday night, Breslin pondered how he would get in, how best to navigate the huge crowd and how he might persuade Kingfishr to perform.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

At 10 he pondered Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s definition of the Russians as a “God-bearing nation” and concluded that “all national stereotypes were nonsense.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

As for the other jewels, he pondered this way and that, and at last he decided he would go to the great house and see if there were more land to buy.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck