ruminate
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After thinking a young girl's outfit in an airport was inappropriate, she started to ruminate over why those beliefs appeared in the first place.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
“I try not to ruminate on the past but look to the future,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
After Eva and Ryland briefly ruminate on fear and primal instinct, Ryland’s otherwise direct and unemotional government superior takes to the mic, performing a cover of Harry Styles’ “Sign of the Times.”
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026
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 • Jan. 31, 2026
Abigail heard him out about the doomed course of the French Revolution but was somewhat more sanguine: “I ruminate upon France as I lie awake many hours before light,” she wrote.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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