Thesaurus / ruminate
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In particular, she ruminates over Klaas’s disappearance as possibly part of a pattern that includes the fictional Cameron’s kidnapping.
IN HER NOVEL ‘WHEN THE STARS GO DARK,’ PAULA MCLAIN DRAWS ON ABUSE CASES, INCLUDING HER OWNMAUREEN CORRIGANAPRIL 23, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Most work by reducing the functional connectivity of the “default mode network,” which is active when we mind-wander, daydream, self-reflect, worry, and ruminate.
WHY MAKING OUR BRAINS NOISIER FEELS GOOD - ISSUE 96: REWIREDTHOMAS NAILFEBRUARY 17, 2021NAUTILUS
When we ruminate, we tend to think again and again about a negative past in general, global terms.
HOW TO KEEP YOUR SADNESS FROM TURNING INTO DEPRESSIONJELENA KECMANOVICNOVEMBER 29, 2020WASHINGTON POST
As Hamer ruminates on the problems of the 1960s — police brutality, victim blaming, gentrification, the education gap and voter suppression, among them — the unsettling parallels to life in 2020 deepen.
We need not grovel in the sinks and cellars, neither need we ruminate upon the house-tops.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMAN
He has but one stomach, does not ruminate, and is formed more like the horse than the ox, or other ruminating animals.
BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY. VOLUME VII (OF 10)GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON
It is not a book to be read through at one sitting, but one to dip into occasionally and to ruminate over in pleased contentment.
SOLOMON MAIMON: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.SOLOMON MAIMON
The wretched Camilla quitted them all as soon as possible, to retire to her chamber, and ruminate upon her purposed letter.
CAMILLAFANNY BURNEY
But, being a mother, it was inevitable that she should soon cease to ruminate upon her own condition.
RETURN OF THE NATIVETHOMAS HARDY
Here Pleyel sunk into anxious silence, and gave me leisure to ruminate on this inexplicable event.
WIELAND; OR THE TRANSFORMATIONCHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN
WORDS RELATED TO RUMINATE
- argue
- bat it around
- cerebrate
- chew over
- cogitate
- consider
- consult
- contemplate
- debate
- excogitate
- hammer away at
- judge
- kick around
- knock around
- meditate
- mull over
- muse
- ponder
- pour it on
- put on thinking cap
- rack brains
- reason
- reflect
- revolve
- roll
- ruminate
- run up a flagpole
- speculate
- stew over
- study
- sweat over
- talk over
- turn over
- weigh
- absorb
- attack
- banquet
- bite
- bolt
- break bread
- breakfast
- chew
- chow down
- cram
- devour
- digest
- dine
- dispatch
- dispose of
- fall to
- feast upon
- feed
- gobble up
- gorge
- gormandize
- graze
- have a bite
- have a meal
- have for
- ingest
- inhale
- lunch
- make pig of oneself
- masticate
- munch
- nibble
- nosh
- partake of
- peck at
- pick
- pig out
- polish off
- pork out
- put away
- ruminate
- scarf
- scoff
- snack
- sup
- swallow
- take food
- take in
- take nourishment
- wolf
- absorb
- attack
- banquet
- bite
- bolt
- break bread
- breakfast
- chew
- chow down
- cram
- devour
- digest
- dine
- dispatch
- dispose of
- fall to
- feast upon
- feed
- gobble up
- gorge
- gormandize
- graze
- have a bite
- have a meal
- have for
- ingest
- inhale
- lunch
- make pig of oneself
- masticate
- munch
- nibble
- nosh
- partake of
- peck at
- pick
- pig out
- polish off
- pork out
- put away
- ruminate
- scarf
- scoff
- snack
- sup
- swallow
- take food
- take in
- take nourishment
- wolf
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