ruminate
Example Sentences
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Characteristics of BDD include emotional distress, spending a lot of time ruminating and feeling unable to control thoughts about appearance.
From BBC
Yet Keaton’s off-kilter taste—reflected elsewhere in her rambling dialogue delivery and outré fashion sense—is in evidence in her attraction to the strange personalities asked to ruminate on the hereafter.
Jordan had left her relationship and begun to see a therapist, who had caused her to ruminate over her estrangement from her mum.
From BBC
It’s hard to believe Mr. Smith hasn’t ruminated more seriously on what he might have done differently, and maybe he’ll share that someday in a forum other than a House interrogation.
From this place of old age and treatable illness, Julian ruminates on the fallible nature of memory and its role in shaping our identities.
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