ruminate
to think deeply and at length about something
Word origin: From Latin ruminari, to chew the cud.
Ruminate in a sentence
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She spent the long train ride ruminating on her next career move.
The committee adjourned to ruminate over the proposal before committing to any single course of action.
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Verbal · Text Completion
The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
Using “ruminate” well
Ruminate means to think deeply and at length, often turning a matter over repeatedly. The image comes from a cow chewing cud, which underlies the sense of slow, repeated mental processing.
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