contemplate

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Losing Brown and Cummings was grim enough but the fear of losing Steyn as well was too much to contemplate.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

“I recognize my suggestions are hard for many to contemplate and may be even viewed as overly harsh by some.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

When I contemplate it, I think about the mothers at my son’s preschool, people I work with, wealthier friends, and wonder if they would find requests for money to be cringe.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2026

He speculated that scholars and Americans in general were too disheartened by Vietnam to want to contemplate a traumatic rupture like the Civil War.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

She was as happy to read the magic books from her Uncle Marcos’s enchanted trunks as she was to contemplate the Liberal Party documents her father kept in his study.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende